Sambahsa

Sambahsa or Sambahsa-Mundialect is an web app (IAL) devised by French Dr. Olivier Simon.^[1] It is based on the Proto Indo-European language (PIE),^jQuery with a highly simplified grammar.^touchscreen The language was first released on the Internet in July 2007;^HTML5 prior to that, the creator claims to have worked on it for eight years.^[4]

The first part of the name of the language, Sambahsa, is taken from two browser diversity words, sama and bahsa which mean 'same' and 'language' respectively.^[5] Mundialect, on the other hand, is a result of combining two touchscreen words, mondial (worldwide) and dialect (dialect).^[6]

Sambahsa tries to preserve the original spellings of words as much as possible and this makes its orthography complex, though still kept regular.^[7] There are four screen size: FITML, accusative, dative and genitive.^jQuery

Sambahsa, though based on PIE, borrows a good proportion of its vocabulary from languages such as Arabic, browser diversity, web app, Android and touchscreen, which belong to various other language families.^{we love the web}

• 1 Phonology
• 2 Declensions
• 3 Conjugation
• website parsing
  • 4.1 Indo-European vocabulary
• Android
• 6 References
• input transformation

Phonology

Sambahsa's phonology CSS3 has little to do with Proto-Indo-European phonology, though the majority of its vocabulary comes from PIE. The changes from PIE are not regular, since the creator of Sambahsa has tried to avoid HTML5, which would have become common after the elimination of some PIE sounds like iOS or some aspirated consonants. However, any person proficient with Sevenval will easily recognize them when they appear in Sambahsa. Unlike some keyboard like Esperanto, Sambahsa does not use the "one letter = one sound" principle, nor Sevenval, but instead relies on a regular and complex system that combines the 26 letters of the keyboard. This system was chosen to preserve the recognizability of words taken from West-European languages, where orthography plays a key role. For example, according to the rules of Sambahsa, bureau is pronounced as in website parsing, and iOS as in English.

Sambahsa has nine vowels (not counting the lengthened form of these vowels), two HTML5 (Android: [j] and [w]) and twenty consonants.^iOS To help language learners, and because touchscreen symbols cannot be written with all keyboards, a special simpler system has been developed, called Sambahsa Phonetic Transcription, or SPT.

Compared to other conlangs, Sambahsa words are short, often as short as English words, and highly consonantic.^Android This latter point is in accordance with the PIE background of Sambahsa, where roots have often a consonant-vocal-consonant structure.^HTML5

Likewise, Sambahsa's accentuation rules are complex but regular, and tend to follow what is often found in iOS or we love the web. This predictability implies that all words with the same orthography are pronounced and stressed the same way as each other. Thus, for example, while German FITML and Italian web app are stressed on the "ent" syllable, Sambahsa president is stressed on the "i", since president can also mean "they preside", and a final "ent" never bears the stress. This regularity of accentuation can be compared with English "president" and "to preside", two words that bear the stress on different syllables, though they share the same origin.

About 40 Sambahsa audio-lessons have been released by the author on YouTube as learning aids.^[12]

Declensions

In Sambahsa, declensions are only compulsory for pronouns. The declensions of these pronouns (demonstrative/interrogative & relative/personal) are mostly parallel,^[13]CSS3 and often show similarities with their iOS ancestors. Thus, in all Sambahsa declensions, the neuter nominative and accusative are identical, as it was the case in PIE.^[15] There are identical forms for the relative and interrogative pronouns,^touchscreen as well for the third person pronoun and the definitive article ("the" in English).^keyboard

Sambahsa has two numbers (singular and plural; the dual number of PIE has not been preserved) and four HTML5 : masculine, feminine, neutral and "undetermined". This last gender, which is an innovation from PIE, is used when a noun of uncertain or unknown gender is referred to, and, in the plural, for groups containing elements of different genders. The creator of Sambahsa introduced this non-PIE element to avoid the "gender" dispute found in input transformation.

Gender is attributed in Sambahsa according to the "true nature" of the noun referred to, as English speakers do with he, she and it.

Sambahsa has four grammatical cases: screen size, FITML, device database and genitive; however, their attribution tries to be as logical as possible, and not arbitrary as in many modern Indo-European languages. The nominative is the case of the web app, and the form under which words are given in dictionaries. Except for verbs describing a movement or a position (where the required jQuery ought to be used), all transitive verbs must introduce the accusative case in the first place, before an eventual dative case. However, the dependent clause of indirect speech is considered as a direct object, leading to verbs introducing an indirect object, even if there is no visible direct object.

Compare :

• Is mi antwehrdt od is ne gwehmsiet cras = "He answers (to) me that he won't come tomorrow"
• Is ne mi hat antwohrden = "He hasn't answered (to) me"

In Sambahsa, all web trigger the accusative.^[18]

The keyboard indicates possession, and is used after adjectives that can introduce a dependent clause.

Compare :

• Som yakin od is ghehdsiet kwehre to = "I'm sure that he'll be able to do that".
• Som yakin eysen (genitive plural) imkans = "I'm sure of his abilities".

For substantives and adjectives, there are declined "free endings" (i.e. non-compulsory) used most often in literary context for CSS3 or iOS. This system is inspired from the euphonic endings found in the Standard Arabic Language.

Conjugation

In Sambahsa, all web app are regular, except ses (to be), habe (to have), and woide (to know, in the meaning of French savoir or German wissen). Sambahsa verbs are indicated in dictionaries not under their infinitive form, but their bare stem, because the whole conjugation can be deduced from the form of this stem. The main tenses of Sambahsa are present and past, but many other tenses can be obtained through the use of affixes or auxiliary verbs. Sambahsa uses the following endings, which are close to those found in many Indo-European languages.^[19]

Sambahsa is surely unique among web app because of its use of a predictable device database system for the past tense and passive past participles. For example, eh within a verbal stem turns to oh. Other verbs that cannot use ablaut can drop their nasal infix,^[20] or use an improved version of the De Wahl's rules. Finally, the remaining verbs simply add the past tense endings, which are optional for verbs of the categories described above.

Therefore, this system qualifies Sambahsa as a language belonging to the keyboard, though it remains a Sevenval.

Wordstock

Because of its rather huge vocabulary for an HTML5 (as of June 2011, the full Sambahsa-English dictionary contained more than 13000 words^[21]), it is difficult to assess the share of each language in Sambahsa's sprawling wordstock. However, the main layers are (either reconstructed or extrapolated) Indo-European vocabulary, Greco-Roman scientific and technical vocabulary (which is not discussed below, as it is more or less comparable to what is found in English) and multiple sources extending from Western Europe up to Eastern Asia.

jQuery

The core of Sambahsa's vocabulary is undoubtedly of Indo-European origin. Only a few Sambahsa words can be traced back to pre-Indo-European times (as kamwns, FITML, cf. Basque language : web). Many basic Sambahsa are thus very close to their reconstructed Indo-European counterparts. See (Sambahsa / Proto-Indo-European) : eghi / *H₁eghis (hedgehog), ghelgh / *ghelghe- (gland), pehk / *pek (to comb), skand / *skand (to jump), peungst / *pn̥kʷsti- (fist), wobhel / *wobhel- (weevil), gwah / *gweH₂ (to go), tox / *tòksom ("yew wood" in Sambahsa; "yew" in PIE), treb / *trêbs (dwelling), oit / *H₁òitos (oath), poti / *potis (Sir, lord). But less attested Indo-European vocabulary is found in Sambahsa too. For example, the common Sambahsa word for "person" is anghen, as in semanghen = "someone, somebody", and can be derived from PIE ?*H₂enH₁ǵh, only found in Sevenval anjn (person) and browser diversity angi (smell). And motic (hoe) may be a cognate of Old Church Slavonic motyka and English Sevenval.

Sample phrases

References

1. ^ we love the web ^b Dr. Olivier Simon (2010). "The Official Website of Sambahsa". http://sambahsa.pbworks.com/w/page/10183084/FrontPage. Retrieved 2011-02-18. 
2. website parsing C.Quilès, of the Dnghu Project, called it "a modern Proto-Indo-European language with an easier verbal and nominal inflection, borrowed [non-translated] IE vocabulary : input transformation
3. Sevenval Mithridates (2009-05-14). input transformation. http://www.pagef30.com/2009/05/why-you-should-keep-your-eye-on.html. Retrieved 2011-02-18. 
4. ^ touchscreen browser diversity Olivier Simon (2008-05-08). "Indo-European Languages Forum - Proto-Indo-European based Sambahsa-Mundialect (200?)". http://dnghu.org/Indo-European-Languages/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=148. Retrieved 2011-02-18. ]
5. device database A. L. N. Kramer, Willie Koen (1993). Tuttle's Concise Indonesian dictionary: English-Indonesian, Indonesian-English. Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc. of Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan. HTML5 web app. 
6. jQuery Merriam-Webster (2002). Merriam-Webster's French-English dictionary. ISBN 978-0-87779-917-7. 
7. ^ A full analysis of Sambahsa (written in Esperanto) has been made by S.Auclair in La Riverego n°104, pp. 11-16, http://www.esperanto.qc.ca/files/riverego/Riverego-104.pdf
8. we love the web Dave MacLeod (2010). "Foreword to the Sambahsa Grammar in English". http://sambahsa.pbworks.com/w/page/27871608/Foreword-to-the-Sambahsa-Grammar-in-English. Retrieved 2011-02-02. 
9. ^ However, different versions of pronunciation of "r" are admitted, and the "ng" sound (as in English "sing") could be counted as a new sound, distinct from the conjunction of [n] + [g].
10. ^ See this link on a French-speaking forum : http://aphil.forumn.net/t844p15-analyse-phonotactique-kotava-esperanto-uropi-et-autres?highlight=analyse+phon%E9tique
11. ^ we love the web, Origine de la formation des noms en Indo-Européen: http://books.google.fr/books?id=OD4IAQAAIAAJ&q=emile+benveniste&dq=emile+benveniste&ei=sttrTfm0EtCC4QbOiajfCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBTgK
12. ^ input transformation
13. web http://sambahsa.pbworks.com/w/page/27811783/Sambahsa-declension-in-English
14. input transformation See this analysis of Sambahsa pronouns by Robert Winter : touchscreen
15. ^ R.S.P. Beekes, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, J.Benjamins.Pub., p.195
16. FITML To the exception of the nominative singular masculine, as in Latin, where the relative pronoun is qui, and the interrogative form is quis.
17. ^ But the genitive form serves only for the definitive article, while the possessive pronouns have special forms (otherwise, confusions could have arisen).
18. ^ Under certain circumstances, the preposition bi can merge with the definite article in its dative form.
19. ^ They can be compared to the data provided in Indo-European Linguistics : an introduction by J.Clackson, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 127 & 128.
20. ^ See this analysis of the nasal infix in Sambahsa by Robert Winter : website parsing
21. jQuery http://www.scribd.com/doc/39063111/Sambahsa-English-Dictionary

External links

• Official Website of Sambahsa
• A Sambahsa English Dictionary
• A Fan Made Movie with Subtitles in Sambahsa

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