Noxilo
| Noxilo | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Mizuta Sentaro |
| Date | 1997 |
| Setting and usage | International auxiliary language |
| Users | None |
| Purpose | |
| Sources | vocabulary from English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, etc. |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
Noxilo (Japanese: ノシロ語 [noɕiɽoɡo]) is an international auxiliary language created by Mizuta Sentaro (水田 扇太郎 mizuta sentarō). In 1997, he published a book outlining the language, and presented it on his website. He claims it was created to address the alleged problems of several constructed languages, including; being based mostly on European languages, racism, and sexism.
Source of Words[edit]
Speakers may use as many words from their native language as they wish, making Noxilo potentially unintelligible to anyone who does not speak their language.
A good illustration of the many origins of the words lie in the numbers. Below is a chart that displays a number, its pronunciation, and origin.
| Number | Spelling | Pronunciation | Origin |
| 0 | XUNyA | [ˈʃuːnja] | |
| 1 | II | [ˈiː] | Chinese |
| 2 | NI | [ˈni] | Japanese |
| 3 | SAM | [ˈsamu] or [ˈsam] | Korean |
| 4 | SII | [ˈsiː] | Thai |
| 5 | LIMA | [ˈlima] | Malay |
| 6 | ZEKS | [ˈzekusu] or [ˈzeksu] | German |
| 7 | SABAA | [ˈsaˈbaː] | Arabian |
| 8 | Bat | ||
| 9 | KOO | [ˈkoː] | Burmese |
| 10 | TIO | [ˈtio] | Swedish |
| 100 | STO | [ˈsuto] | Russian |
| 1,000 | MILA | [ˈmila] | Italian |
| 10,000 | MAn | [ˈmaɴ] | |
| 100,000,000 | OK | [ˈoku] or [ˈok] | Korean |
| 1,000,000,000,000 | QO | [ˈtʃo] | Korean |
| 10,000,000,000,000,000 | KyOn | [ˈkjoɴ] | Korean |
Noxilo script[edit]
| Noxilo script | |
|---|---|
| Type | Abugida
|
| Languages | Noxilo |
| Creator | Mizuta Sentaro |
There are two forms of the Noxilo script: one using Latin letters, and one derived from Latin letters. In the Latin form of the alphabet, uppercase and lowercase letters are treated as separate letters: Uppercase letters are syllables unless a vowel follows; lowercase (there are only two) are simple consonants. The original script is similar to kana in that voiced consonants are derived from their unvoiced homologues (by adding a stroke), and there is a special letter for a syllable-final nasal.
Grammar[edit]
Sentences in Noxilo can use SOV and SVO. This was done so that speakers of most languages could use a word order that was familiar to them or at least close to something they were familiar with.
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronunciation is essentially that of Japanese. Vowels as in Spanish (doubled vowels are long), consonants, including J and Y, are pronounced as in English (doubled consonants are long), except that C is like ts, Q is ch, and X is sh.
A consonant on its own is pronounced with a following u, and a following u is pronounced long. This applied to those consonants written as capitals; minuscule y and n are single consonants. (n assimilates to a following consonant as [m n ŋ].):
- K [ku], Ky [kju], Kn [kun], Kyn [kjun], KU [kuː], KyU [kjuː], KUn [kuːn], KyUn [kjuːn].
When another vowel follows, the [u] is suppressed:
- KA [ka], KyA [kja], KAn [kan], KAA [kaː], KyAA [kjaː], KAAn [kaːn]
An unwritten [u] may be elided after a written vowel, unless there is an apostrophe to retain it:
- KI [ki], KIA [kia], K'I [kui].
Stress is on the first vowel, on any vowel before a double consonant, on any long vowel, and in longer words, on the third vowel (counting after any u has been dropped). This means that adjacent syllables may be stressed, something which does not occur in English.
External links[edit]
- Noxilo Main-page (in English, French, or Japanese)
References[edit]
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