Lesson 01

These lessons will work through a basic Angos vocabulary, adding just 8 or 10 words at a time. A lesson should only take 10 or 12 minutes to learn, so you could possibly do two or three a day. If you are doing several lessons at a time, you will do better if you break your study time into several short periods during the day, instead of doing one long session. Before starting a new lesson, be sure to review the previous one, to refresh your memory.

Your first Angos word list is English, hyphen, Angos, pronunciation hint in parentheses: wo (woe) - I, me wi (wee) - my, mine to (toe) - you ti (tee) - your wio (WEE-oh) - eye wia (WEE-ah) - see

wo wia to. to wia wo. I see you. You see me.

wi wio wia to.ti wio wia wo. My eye sees you. Your eye sees me

wo wia ti wio. to wia wi wio. I see your eye. You see my eye.

This is a little silly, but we have to start somewhere! Looking at the word list and the examples, you can see:

1. Angos does not use capital letters, even to start a sentence.
2. "wo" means both "I" and "me". Angos does not require any change in a word just because the word is the object of a verb.
3. "wio" is a noun, so it ends in "-o".
4. "wia" is a verb, ending in "-a", related to the root noun "wio". An eye in action sees, looks, watches (verb). An organ for seeing is an eye (noun).
5. "wi" and "ti" end in "-i", the ending for an adjective.

You can probably guess what's going to be the case with ear, nose, and mouth, in the the next lesson!

malio me ala pani-am-belo. Lo amaa pani-am-belo. solu lo ala osk-am-belo. lo amaa osk-am-belo. solu lo ala mag-belo. lo amaa mag-belo. malio sensa laseli. pani-am-belo pani-ami, sayu omo nama lo pani-am-belo. osk-am-belo osk-ami, sayu omo nama lo osk-am-belo. mag-belo sang-ami. ko koda omo nae namo lo sang-am-belo? malio cimuna de li ni-wano. li ni-wano nae yada. lo cimuna de li na-wano. li na-wano nae yada. li cimuna de li lafi na-siso. <isue di sang-ami belo tae kelaso!> li na-siso me ansa.

Mary ate a blueberry. She loved blueberries. Then she ate a blackberry. She loved blackberries. Then she ate a strawberry. She loved strawberries. Mary was confused. A blueberry is blue, so you call it a blueberry. A blackberry is black, so you call it a blackberry. A strawberry is red. So, why don't you call it a redberry? Mary asked her mom. Her mom didn't know. She asked her dad. Her dad didn't know. She asked her little brother. "Because a red berry is a cherry!" her brother said.

Angos is the name of a language, or more precisely, a constructed language, an invented artificial language. Because it was carefully designed, rather than haphazardly grown in the wilds of human culture, Angos has some advantages over natural languages. When Ben Wood constructed Angos, he made it:

1. Simple. Angos has about 800 root words which form the base for a 3000+ word vocabulary.
2. Logical. You add a letter to a root word to show its grammatical function. words ending in "o" are nouns, "a" means a verb, "i" means an adjective, "u" means an adverb.
3. Clear. Angos has about 60 particles, all of them ending in "e", to work as prepositions, conjunctions, comparatives, and such non-noun grammatical objects.
4. Pronouncable. There are no variations in sounds from the basic list of vowels and consonants, and no tricky consonant clusters to fight with.
5. Writable. Angos is completely phonetic, so what you see is what you pronounce, and what you hear is what you spell, with no mystery vaiations like the ones we have in English.
6. Learnable. If you learn just 15 words a day, you will know the entire language in two months!
7. Interesting. The Angos vocabulary is not a word-for-word match with English, or any other language. Angos roots are nouns you bend into use to describe images and pictures in your mind. Translating from Ango word-for-word loses the delicacy and flavor of meaning. If you want to know what a text in Angos means, take a little time to learn the language!
8. Fun. The way you describe an image in Angos just might differ from the way someone else would describe it. But you will still understand each other, with the added benefit of personal flavoring. There are only a handful of speakers of Angos, scattered around the world. You will be in a small, very friendly, very creative group when you join the world of Angos.

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kalistolo me aksala ipos de li ni-siso. li ni-siso me leisa ine andi hilios. li ni-siso nae me ba no-mekos. ye kalistolofo me nae ba no-mekos. li ni-siso me nae kala kinoa ans-mekos. ye kalistolo besali. lo me aksala nineski ipos de ni-siso. lo me ansa de ni-siso fo lae otali fiombo de li eleteo. lo me ansa fo lae lo be otali kamo. lo me ansa de ni-lo fo lae lo ba otali ni-amiko. lo me ansa de ni-lo fo lae lo ba oltali hod-hayos. lo me ba fali le fiombo de li ni-siso. ni-lo ke balaki lae buka li ipos. solu ni-lo ke aksala ipos de lo. ye li ipos ke ba fali le fiombo.

Christopher wrote a letter to his sister. His sister lived in another city. His sister did not have a computer. Neither did he. His sister didn't like to use the phone. Neither did he. He wrote his sister a long letter. He told her the news in his life. He told her that he had a new job. He told her that he had a new girlfriend. He told her that he had a new car. He had lots of news for his sister. She would be happy to read his letter. Then she would send him a letter. Her letter would have lots of news, too.

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caloso me finda neste-yulio. lo me finda neste-yulio ine poste kusa-oyo. do sabi neste-yulio. do osku kus-amo. lo me wia ine osku kus-ami neste-yulio. lo nae wia yo. lo me gega fe neste-yulio. mo me gelaa twe neste-yulio. lo me iska molo. lo ludeo. caloso mana ludeo. lo me wia do. ludeo me wia de caloso. caloso me esa neste-yulio ceu de molo. lo me esa ludeo de molo, mwe neste-yulio. ludeo me sipota ine neste-yulio.

Charles found a glass bottle. He found the glass bottle in his back yard. It was a pretty glass bottle. It was dark green. He looked inside the dark green bottle. He couldn’t see anything. He shook the bottle. Something came out of the bottle. It landed on the ground. It was a bug. Charles picked up the bug. He looked at it. The bug looked at Charles. Charles put the bottle back on the ground. He put the bug on the ground, next to the bottle. The bug crawled back into the bottle.

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elisabeto sabona li le mano osi hio. lo kala sabona li le mano. lo sabona li le mano tongwe sabono ye panio. lo kinoa sabono ye panio mate sabona le li mano. lo kinoa tepuli panio ye sabono. lo sabona li le mano de tin-den byo. poste tin-den byo lo pasua sabona li le mano. lo pasua panio. lo tekana panio fe li le mano tongwe saboni man-wolos. osi feti caso lo begina panio ye sabona li le mano. elisabeto le mano istinu saboni. lo nae ba fali mol-wiluso de li le mano. le mol-wiluso nae bisaa eletea dafe li le saboni mano.

Elizabeth washes her hands every day. She likes to wash her hands. She washes her hands with soap and water. She uses soap and water to wash her hands. She uses warm water and soap. She washes her hands for 30 seconds. After 30 seconds she stops washing her hands. She turns off the water. She dries her hands on a clean towel. Every few hours she turns on the water and washes her hands. Elizabeth has very clean hands. She does not have many germs on her hands. Germs cannot live on her clean hands.

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cosefo nae yi ceo maftea leisis antei dolo. be omo iska de antei dolo solu cosefo ansa, <tae ki omo?> elike lo nae maftea dolo. li le wano me ansa de lo lae lo yi ceo patyana dolo. li le wano desa tae lo tamengi. lo tamengi be lo nae maftea dolo. hiante hio omo me iska de antei dolo. <tae ki omo?> cosefo me ansa. <wo aksal-doc-omo,> me ansa omo. <wo nae bisaa maftea dolo,> cosefo me ansa. <oke, wo ke dea hiante hio,> aksal-doc-omo me ansa. <anya!> cosefo ansa. cosefo istinu kali na-anako. lo ela li le wano. lo nae maftea dolo mate yi omo.

Joseph never opens the front door. When someone knocks on the front door, Joseph says, "Who is it?" But he does not open the door. His parents told him to keep the door closed. His parents want him to be safe. He will be safe if he doesn’t open the door. Yesterday someone knocked on the front door. "Who is it?" Joseph asked. "It’s the mailman," the person said. "I cannot open the door," Joseph said. "Okay, I will come back tomorrow," the mailman said. "Goodbye," Joseph said. Joseph is a good boy. He listens to his parents. He doesn’t open the door for any person.

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jenifalo me esa gomi-dohio de hodo. lo esa gomi-dohio de hodo osi hi-mek-ayni sabaho. hi-mek-ayno gomii hio. gomi-hayos hod-haya de lo leisos. gomi-hayos me ba metali taleko. metali taleko me ba gomi-dohio. lo me esa gomi-hio dafe yelo.  lo me wakala gomi-dohio ine gomi-hayos. solu taleko me esa gomi-dohio ceu de hodo. de hi-med-ayni hiposte yang-kimao ni-lo me gia de hodo. gomi-dohio wakali. lo esa gomi-dohio ceu ine li kusa-eyfo. soli hi-mek-ayno ni-lo ke esa lo ceu de hod.

Jennifer pulled the trash can out to the street. She pulled the trash can out to the street on Monday morning. Monday was trash day. The trash truck came to her house. The truck had a metal arm. The metal arm picked up the trash can. It raised the trash can into the sky. It emptied the trash can into the truck. Then the arm put the can back on the street. On Monday afternoon Jennifer walked out to the street. The trash can was empty. She pulled the trash can back into her yard. Next Monday she would pull it out to the street again. 

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tomaso me nae iti. ye lo me nae tepuli. lo me aysi. pogodo me nae oti. ye pogodo nae tepuli. pogodo me aysi. tomaso me nae kali lae lo aysi. lo me finda olomi wolos. lo me se finda olom-wolos. lo me wolas olom-wolos. mice lo me sele aysi. lo me wio de le windawgo. ce osi windawgo bayti? se, istino. le lo me entayi bayti. nei windawgo me mafti. lo me wia de dolo. dolo me nae bayti. lo me nae mafti. tomaso mice me aysi. lo me finda sele tupeli olom-wolos.

Thomas was not hot. He was not warm either. He was cold. The weather was not hot. The weather was not warm either. The weather was cold. Thomas did not like to be cold. He looked for his jacket. He found his jacket. He put on his jacket. But he was still cold. He looked at the windows. Were all the windows closed? Yes, they were. They were all closed. None of the windows were open. He looked at the door. The door wasn’t open. It was closed. He was still cold. He looked for a warmer jacket.

Is it possible to apply the suffixes such as -i, -a, -o etc. to general tense markers such as me or ke ? For Example, keo for future (as a noun), or mei for past (as an adjective) ?

le hefo!

le to sefe kala ki hefo?
wo sefe kala tesemo :)

🐈 mao

🐷 hansilo

🐴 hipo

🐺 wayo

🐶 tesemo

🐑 oyso

🐁 nesumo

🐰 usagio

🐮 sapio

🐻 nenoko

🐓 manoko

🐦 cilo

🐟 ikano

🐜 lafo

🕷️ ananso

🐝 bio

🐸 igelo

🐢 penyo

🐍 ofido

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The passive voice in Angos is formed with the particle te , placed immediately in front of the verb. This is a way of making an object the topic or focus of the sentence.

kalimo te aksala dafe ipos
word-O [pass] letter-A on leaf-O-S
The word is written on the paper

windawgos me te tayla fe wo
window-O-S [past] [pass] piece-A from 1p-O
The window was broken by me

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anya!

Sorry for the rudimentary question.

oyo: [OY.o] oe [O.yo] ?
anya: [A.nya] oe [AN.ya] ?
ekuno: [e.KU.no] oe [e.KUN.o] oe [ek.U.no] oe [ek.UN.o] ?

There are many other words that I don't know.
I can't write everything here.

Is there an easy way to find the syllable breaks?

I read "fem-omo me gia ine te planti efo mwe eskol-omo.".

What do you think?

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/auxlangs/comments/gfwi5a/posta_mundi_fraz_32_per_favor_ajunta_vosa_linguas/

What was first - word or etymology of that word? I mean that you could easily just create bunch of apriori words and then find similar words in some languages, right? Note: I’m not saying it’s bad or anything negative, just curious. Angos is beautiful and logical, love it!

wo anya le to.

se – Yes
nae – No
sese – Of course/Absolutely
naenae – Of course not/No way
bisau – Maybe/Possibly
lotane – Please/Excuse me
milo – Thanks
wo mila to – I thank you
wo ye mila to – I also thank you
nae mila – Don’t thank/No problem
ilemo – Apologies
wo ilema – I apologize/I’m sorry
nae ilema – Don’t apologize/No problem

https://www.angos.org/phrasebook/

👩 omo

👩 ni-omo

👨 omo

👨 na-omo

👩 & 👨 ni-omo ye na-omo

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👩 omo

👩👩👩 le omo

👩👩👩👩 le omo

👨👨👨👨👨 le omo

👨👨👨👩👩👩 le omo
-
👩👩👩👨👨👨 ?

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🍎 tofao

🍌 banano

🍎 & 🍌 tofao ye banano

-

🐱 mao

🐶 tesemo

🐱 & 🐶 mao ye tesemo

-

☀ yango

🌙 yino

☀ & 🌙 yango ye yino

-
🍎 & 🐱 ?

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

yango : sun

yino : moon

yutuso : star

nehaso : earth

ni-omo : woman

na-omo : man

wo kon-omo = I [am a] student

tae mao = there is a cat

tae mao de wo = I have a cat (lit. 'there is a cat at me')

tae tin tofao = there is three apples

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