Lingua Franca Nova
| Lingua Franca Nova | |
|---|---|
| lingua franca nova | |
| Created by | C. George Boeree |
| Date | 1998 |
| Setting and usage | International auxiliary language |
| Purpose | International auxiliary language
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| Latin, (Cyrillic co-official until 2021) | |
| Sources | based on Romance and Creole languages |
| Official status | |
| Regulated by | Asosia per Lingua Franca Nova (ALFN) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | lfn |
lfn | |
| Glottolog | ling1267 |
Lingua Franca Nova (pronounced [ˈliŋɡwa ˈfraŋka ˈnova]), abbreviated as LFN and known colloquially as Elefen, is a constructed international auxiliary language originally created by C. George Boeree of Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania, and further developed by many of its users. Its vocabulary is based primarily on the Romance languages, namely French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan. Lingua Franca Nova has phonemic spelling based on 22 letters from the Latin script (a Cyrillic script was co-official until 2021).
The grammar of Lingua Franca Nova is inspired by the Romance creole languages. As most creole languages, Lingua Franca Nova has an extremely simplified grammatical system that is easy to learn.