Lingua sistemfrater


Frater , an a posteriori international auxiliary language, published in Frater. The simplest International Language Ever Constructed, in 1957 by the Vietnamese linguist Phạm Xuân Thái. The grammar can be compared to Indonesian language grammar.
Phạm Xuân Thái gave it more than 6,000 words for the usage of a very extensive vocabulary.

Alphabet

This language uses 18 letters:

"a, e, i, o, u"
"b, d, f, g, j, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t"
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"j" is pronounced as"z", "e" as "ei", and "o" as "ou".
All the other letters have their normal pronunciation according to the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Stress

The stress is placed on the last syllable of the word. Every letter is pronounced; there are no silent letters.

Article

There is no indefinite article or definite article.

Personal Pronouns

Possessives are formed by adding the preposition ot before the pronoun.

Nouns

The noun in Frater is invariable.
Plurals can be formed by adding multi to the end of the noun:
mensa - mensamulti

Adjectives

The adjective in Frater is invariable and is always placed after the noun; except for cardinal numbers.

Numbers

The cardinal numbers in Frater:
1 - uni
2 - bi
3 - tri
4 - kuadri
5 - kuinti
6 - ses
7 - sep
8 - okta
9 - nona
10 - deka
11 - dekauni
12 - dekabi
13 - dekatri
20 - bideka
24 - bidekakuadri
30 - trideka
40 - kuadrideka
85 - oktadekakuinti
100 - senti
367 - trisenti-sesdeka-sep
600 - sessenti
1000 - mil
1000000 - milion
Ordinal numbers are formed by placing the cardinal number after the noun.

Verbs

The verb in Frater is invariable in person and in number.
The passive voice is formed by adding the auxiliary verb es before the infinitive:
Ilis es trauma.

Syntax

The syntax in Frater is: Subject - Verb - Object.
Questions are formed by placing the verb before the subject.
Interrogative words include: antropkia, kia, plaskia, temkia, prokia, kak, and multikia.

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