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SKOBAN, the most simple language in the Universe
Skoban is a constructed language spoken all over the world by nearly one person. Acording to the inventor of this language, Ancient Skoban started to be spoken by the mutant inhabitants from planet Borgon who taught it to the Mokay wariors to finaly become the oficial language of the entire Zorgon Galactic Empire (known as ZGC in the US).
Ok, that was the bullshit part, now comes the serious part:
This language was invented with the purpouse of being the most logical and simple as possible, easy to learn for people from all over the world. It has only 150 basic words, that you can combine with eachothers to express any concept. You yourself, after reading the grammar book, will be able to construct new words according to the (few) rules of Skoban, and be understood by any other Skoban speaker (if you find one).
The most original grammar rule is that if you spell a basic word backwords, you get the oposite meaning. For example, in Skoban Distok, "YA" means "you" and "AY" means "me". "YAN" means "yes" and "NAY" means "no", and so on. If you understood this, you just learned almost half the grammar there is to be learned!
Skoban is a constructed language, just like Esperanto, Elfic or Klingon.
The word "Skoban" means "this language" (sko=this, ban=language)
Skoban Distok aka Super Basic English, is a second version of Skoban, where each basic word was replaced by new words remotely similar to English ones. The aim was to make it even more easy to memorise the 150 basic words. Skoban Distok is therefore, a kind of English Pidjeon, or Creoule language, keeping the structure, ortography and grammar of the ancient Skoban. "Distok" also means "this language" (this talk).
Other versions of Skoban are possible, like "Selan" based on French, "Disspresh" on German, "Stafal" on Portuguese, "Jedjiang" on Chinese, "Dji.." on Hindi and so on, all using exactly the same rules.
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