/r/linguafrancanova
A subreddit for the international auxiliary language Lingua Franca Nova
A subreddit for the international auxiliary language Lingua Franca Nova (also called LFN or Elefen). Its vocabulary is based on the western Romance Languages and its grammar is creole-like. Learn more about it over at elefen.org
Custom theme maybe coming soon.
/r/linguafrancanova
Why is there no duolingo course? Is no one interested in doing one? They have klingon for crying out loud we should be able to have LFN and toki pona for crying out loud.
I found out about LFN while chatting with an AI. The resources it shared with me don't seem to be up to date. Can anyone share some links with me?
So do you think the use of LFN conlang has increased recently?
The Wikibooks course on Elefen is very lackluster, and I found the grammar guide inadequate. Are there any in depth courses?
Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.
Your top 10 posts:
Is the passive participle essentially tenseless?
Given this, from the LFN Grammar:
Esta sala ia es pintida par un bufon. – This room was painted by a clown.
pintida seems tenseless, and ia es places it in the past. So does this imply:
Esta sala es pintida par un bufon. – This room is (being) painted by a clown.
Esta sala va es pintida par un bufon. – This room will be painted by a clown.
Thanks! I am new to LFN, but love it!
Hello! I need to conduct a survey for a school assignment. I have a Google Form consisting of eleven questions. The point of the survey is to see if languages (both natural and constructed) influence us. The only requirement is that you are learning (or have learned) another language. Thank you in advance for your participation!
https://forms.gle/KAbXAeAd6AfV4soN7 (the link to the Google Form)
Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.
Your top 10 posts:
tl;dr: I am a moron
IMPORTANT - When I did this post I was overly exited, I loved the idea of the language and thought I could add value to the community, I was obviously WRONG. I rushed to give my opinions on a complex concept, that I didn't understand well and this is the result. This post is a very good example on how not to do things, so if anyone is thinking like me, that their opinions are to good that you need to share them, take a minute reach someone active in the community and start working from there.
[EDIT] - This post was written from my naive point of view. It is no meant to tell you that what you are working on will be replaced by the crazy ideas of a random misinformed person on the internet. As I said I like the language, so I was thinking about ways of make the language to not feel as dead as it feels (apparently there is a very active community on facebook). I am not a linguist so I don't try to change the language in any way, just how it's being delivered. So the post was product of a quick brainstorm from my very small experience, if you want to read it go for it, also I would love to see if you are already working on something or maybe you have an idea and need help to develop it.
A little long.
A few months ago I was looking to learn a new language, I didn't feel a connection with any natural language at the moment, so I went for conlangs or auxlangs. My first option was esperanto, but the diacritics there got me annoyed, I still wanted to learn a language so I start looking for alternatives and I find this language, the simplicity and the idea of a Romance Conlang got me instantaneously.
About me
My native language it's not English, and I learnt English by my self, so I apologize if made a mistake. I started learning elefen a few months ago and actually I really got into it, I didn't complete the course, because I didn't had time at the moment. Nonetheless, I am still interested on learning it and also be part of the community now that I have a little more time.
Intro
There are a few issues, that I see like points for improvement in the way the language is delivered to people, this post is only about this, I don't have any idea about linguistics and that kind of stuff. The following suggestions are not a list of requirements for me, but it's just, a list of things that could be improved, from my perspective. Even if you, people, think that this issues and suggestions are not enough to invest time on them, I will be part the community anyway.
The official spaces
We need to find a better solution, for maintaining and collaboration, this would be inspired by the FOSS movement in the software development community, that way we don't depend only on a small team of developers, but instead anyone that find a problem can report it or even fix it by themselves if they want.
I will be traveling to a Spanish speaking country soon and fear that I don't enough time to do much besides learn some basic words and phrases. I'm wondering how much LFN might be helpful in communicating with Spanish speakers.
How do I say "chemistry" in Elefen?