Mondial language

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Mondial
Created byHelge Heimer
Dateearly 1940s
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ISO 639-3 None (mis)
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IETF art-x-mondial

Mondial is an international auxiliary language created by the Swedish school principal Helge Heimer, in the early 1940s. It received favourable reviews from several academic linguists but achieved little practical success. Grammars and dictionaries were published in Swedish, French, English, Italian, and German.

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Orthography

Mondial uses 26 letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet, where k and w only occur in proper nouns and loan words. [1]

Mondial alphabet (+ digraphs)
Number1234568891011121314151617181920212223242526--
Upper case A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z CHQU
Lower case abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzchqu
IPA phoneme a b k, ts d e f g , d͡ʒ h i d͡ʒ k l m n o p k r s t u v w ks j , i t͡s t͡ʃ k

Grammar

Tonic accent

The tonic accent in Mondial in general falls on the penultimate syllable in words that end in a vowel or s:

on the last syllable in nouns that end with a consonant other than s:

A diphthong counts as one syllable:

Exceptions to this show the placing of the tonic accent with an accent:

Pronouns

PersonNominativeObliquePossessive
EnglishMondialEnglishMondialEnglishMondial
1st singularIyomememymi
2nd singularyoutuyouteyourtui (or votre)
3rd singular (male)heilhimluihissui
3rd singular (female)sheelherleihersei
3rd singular (neuter)itilitloitssui
1st pluralwenuusnosournostre
2nd pluralyouvuyouvosyourvostre
3rd pluraltheylithemlestheirlor

The reflexive, third person singular pronoun (himself, herself, itself) is se. The pronoun su means "her own", "his own" or "its own".

Note that the third person singular possessive is the same for both masculine and neuter (sui). Votre can be used as second person singular possessive as a respectful form. [2]

Verbs

Verbs conjugate as follows, using savar (to know) as an example:

Verbs do not conjugate by person: yo, tu, il, nu, vu, li sava (I, you, he, we, you, they know).

Mondial has a single irregular verb, the verb ser (to be):

The auxiliary verb har (have) is used in much the same way as English, conjugating in the same way as the above plus the past participle of the main verb:

Passive voice is formed with the auxiliary verb var and the past participle of the main verb:

The verb to be (ser) can be used in the same way as var when no ambiguity arises:

(He is known by all)

An example of where var and ser cannot be used interchangeably:

(The door is opened at three o'clock – passive)
(The door is open at three o'clock – state of being)

Sample

Tristan Bernard, le autor humoristique, havi un dia prendate place con un amico in un vagon de primer clase por andar a Versalies. Il alumavi imediatemente un bon cigar, que il comenzavi da fumar con visible satisfacion. Alor un senior entravi i dicavi in un ton iritante a Tristan Bernard da gectar le cigar o da andar in un altere compartimente. Nul response. Le senior inconosate repeta su demande, ma in van. Fuor se de indignacion, il precipita se fuor del compartimente i returna algue momentes dopo con le conductor.

"Cel senior ha nulo da dicar ci", dicavi alor Tristan Bernard, "il ha un biliete de secunde clase, i cil e le primer clase." Confuse i furiose, le pasagero devavi presentar su biliete al conductor i acompaniar lui imediatemente a un compartimente de secunde clase. Cuando li havi andate se, le amico de Tristan Bernard questionavi lui come il havi povate savar que lo evi un biliete de secunde clase.

"Il saliavi del poche de sui gilete", respondavi Tristan Bernard, i yo vidavi que il evi del mem color que le mi."

Translation

Tristan Bernard, the humorist, one day sat with a friend in a first-class carriage to Versailles. He immediately lit a good cigar, which he began to smoke with visible satisfaction. Then, a gentleman entered and told Tristan Bernard, in an irritating tone, to put out his cigar or to go to another compartment. No response. The gentleman, becoming angry, repeated his request, but in vain. Beside himself with indignation, he quickly left the compartment and returned several moments later with the conductor.

"This gentleman has nothing to say here," said Tristan Bernard then; "he has a second-class ticket, and this is first class." Confused and angry, the passenger had to present his ticket to the conductor and accompany him immediately to a second-class compartment. When they had gone, Tristan Bernard's friend asked him how he could have known that the other passenger had a second-class ticket.

"It came out of his vest pocket," answered Tristan Bernard, "and I saw that it was the same color as mine."

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References

  1. "Grammar of the Mondial Language | PDF | Cultural Assimilation | Applied Linguistics".
  2. Parlamo Mondial! – Le octeme lecion: “Pronomes personal” and Parlamo Mondial! – Le deceme lecion: “Agectives i pronomes posesiv”, read 18th of August 2017.