Sona language (artificial)

• Constructed language plan language

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Art ( other constructed languages)

Mis (not coded)

Sona is a body set up by Kenneth Searight and described in a 1935 book published plan language.

Origin and influences

Searight created Sona in response to the Eurocentrism of the then popular constructed languages ​​like Esperanto and Ido. At the same time he wanted to avoid it, to create a language, a priori, since the corresponding, known in his time as projects Solresol or Ro were impractical in the acquisition and application. Searight sacrificed therefore the familiarity of grammar and vocabulary in favor of a certain universality, but without sacrificing most basic principles that are applied around the world in languages. An example is the compound word as a means of word formation: From so for language and na for neutral language, the name of Sona results ( neutral language ).

The language bears influences of Persian, Turkish, Arabic, Russian, Chinese and Japanese. In addition, there are influences of English.

Morphology and word formation

Sona consists of 360 basic words, including 360 radicals and again including 15 particles of which the formation of a useful vocabulary should be possible. The language, such as Japanese, agglutinative (see below for rako ) and shows how the Chinese (and partly also the English ) a strongly insulating tendency, as in the cat / rat - examples can be seen.

Text Examples

• Xe the jan = The cat bites the rat.
• Jan the xe = The rat bites the cat.
• Ru xe = The cat goes away.
• Ra = man.
• Ko = child.
• Rako = boy.

Ranjosi Jolen ( Our Father )