"Yet Another Lingua Auxiliar" Poker Project

(update: 26-10-03)

With this large, tetra-faceted project I intend to explore some equidistant compromises lying between the schematism of Esperanto and the naturalism of (I.A.L.A.) Interlingua, in order to understand what parameter set best suits a language capability (see Agorà 011).

The parameters I considered were:

Vocabulary origin,
Alphabet (in this project, which variant of the Roman alphabet),
Phonetics,
Grammar type,
Syntax type,

while the target, common to all subprojects, is T2.2.2 (restricted-discipline oriented-experimental).

The language capabilities I considered were:

reachable audience (Europe, part of Europe, Europe + America, part of Europe + America),
understanding capability with no or little study,
easiness of expression (no or moderate recourse to grammar and dictionary,
completeness of lexicon and language structure to express on:
- Law (European law)
- Science (various types)
- History
- Literature
- Work (various types)
- Travels (contacts with persons that don't know any ConLang)
- Everyday language

The basic idea behind the four subprojects is schematized in the figure below:

Black suits indicate schematic languages, while the red ones indicate naturalistic languages. In the following table I have synthesized the different design choices:

Parameter	Nova Esperanto	Neo²	EurAm Lang	Interlingua 3
Vocabulary origin	(H1.2.1) Esperanto + English	(H1.4.1.3) Romance + English	(H1.4.1.3) Romance + English	(H1.4.1.1) IALA Interlingua
Alphabet	English	English	English	Latin (diacritics)
Phonetics	Esperanto	phonemes common to EN-ES-D-F-I-P	phonemes common to EN-ES-D-DK-F-I-P-PL-RU	phonemes common to EN-ES-D-F-I-P
Grammar	simplified Esperanto	yet to be decided	yet to be decided	average european
Syntax	yet to be decided	yet to be decided	yet to be decided	yet to be decided