Communicationssprache

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Overview

It was created by Joseph Schipfer and first published in Wiesbaden.

This project is of historical interest for two reasons—first, it being based on French, but the inclusion of Template:Angbr, Template:Angbr, Template:Angbr reflects the common view of the time that French is "a world language to some extent". A mere forty years later, in 1879, Volapük took English for basis. Second, Schipfer's project reflects a new conscience of greater possibilities of the international communication which appeared by the invention of the railway and steam ship. He even recommended that his project be used on these "new means of voyage".

Grammar

is based on (or a simplification of) French (see French orthography), making heavy (even exclusive) use of respelled French vocabulary, which Schipfer considered to be nearly universal among the educated classes of the world of his time. Silent letters were removed, one sound for one letter, circumflexes and diaereses were removed, graves to distinguish homographs were removed, the letter Template:Angbr was added (as in English), vowels Template:Angbr instead of Template:Angbr, Template:Angbr instead of French Template:Angbr, Template:Angbr instead of French Template:Angbr and Template:Angbr, Template:Angbr instead of French Template:Angbr, Template:Angbr instead of French Template:Angbr, Template:Angbr instead of French Template:Angbr, the inclusion of macrons for long vowels, and one sound per letter. Although the final orthography can be read and spelled easily due to this one-sound-per-letter principle, the actual conversion of French words is inconsistent, being based sometimes on pronunciation and sometimes on orthography, for example word-final silent Template:Angbr is deleted, as in "stomach" from , but silent Template:Angbr is kept, as in "man" from .

Some of its characteristics are:

• No articles.
• Invariable adjectives.
• Comparatives in and .
• Adverbs formed by adding to adjectives.
• Possessive pronouns in .
• Infinitives in .
• Nouns were declined.
• Capitalization of nouns, as in German.

The declension of nouns works as follows, using "house" as an example:

Nominative		a house
		houses
Genitive		of a house
		of houses
Dative		to a house
		to houses
Accusative		a house
		houses
Vocative		oh house
	o Masonos	oh houses
Ablative		in a house
		in houses

Examples

Our Father prayer

No Pera, wia ete Cielu
ta Noma sanctiferii;
ta Royoma Ais arrivii;
ta volonta färerii
com Cielu änsi Terru.
Donne Ais noa Päno quotidien;
pardonne Ais noa offansos,
com pardonnas Aos offanding;
non permette que succombias tantationi;
mä delivre Aos malu.

Numbers from one to ten

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10

A Response to a Dear Friend

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German:

English: Dear friend! I am asking a thousand times for understanding that I haven't responded to your very binding letter in proper time. I could not excuse this mistake if I could not assure you that I have been ill for several months. That is the sole cause for my long silence, and I wish to assure you at the same time that I appreciate the worth of your friendship and goodness, the continuation of which I subserviently ask for, in its entirety. I wish for nothing more dearly than to have an opportunity to be able to give you active proof of this statement, in order to actively show you with what respectful friendship I am, and shall remain, devoted to you. Monday, 28 January 1839, most devoted servant and friend of my most valued friend

Encoding

has been assigned the codes qcs and art-x-commsspr in the ConLang Code Registry.

Bibliography

• Joseph Schipfer, Prospectus oder ein Paar Worte über die, in der Idee zur Verhütung als scheintodt begraben zu werden, angekündigte allgemeine Communicationssprache, Wiesbaden 1836 (Google)
• Joseph Schipfer, Versuch einer Grammatik für eine allgemeine Communications- oder Weltsprache, Wiesbaden 1839 (LMU)

• The project received the code 417.4"1839” of the Montagu C. Butler Library

External links

• Norbert Michel, "Joseph Schipfer - Träumer oder Humanist", in: Beiträge zur Wallufer Ortsgeschichte, Heft 1, 1993. (requires JavaScript)