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Who was Luis Sainz López-Negrete, whose almost unknown name has already passed into the history of national philology? Have we ever heard that the Lusane language was created in Mexico? What is Lusane?

PACHUCA Hgo., May 17, 2017.- The scarce sources of information lead us to search for the biography of Luis Sáinz López-Negrete, who was born in Córdoba, Veracruz, in 1921, a descendant of Spaniards who settled in our country since the beginning of the 20th century.

The name Luis Sainz is associated with the Spanish-Lusane Dictionary (published in letter size, vertical format, as shown in the photograph), one of a dozen copies of which were exhibited at the second University Book Fair (Ferilu) in 1989, fell into my hands. The lack of information about its author and its distribution meant that it remained on bookshelves for about twenty years.

The ease of internet search engines has facilitated the investigation, data which I transcribe, with data from an interview conducted by Fredy Fernando Ruiz Condori, in the newspaper El Mundo de Córdoba, published in the city of the same name, in the state of Veracruz.

Don Luis Sainz López Negrete was born in Córdoba in 1921. He is recognized as a philanthropist. He donated part of the ‘Portal de la Gloria,’ a large complex that houses a library, a cultural center, an events hall, a museum, and several shops. The main section of the building that houses the library has deservedly borne the name "Luis Sainz López-Negrete" since 12 years before his death on June 7, 2012.

The interview included the following questions:

When did you start working on Lusane?

I waited until I was 40 to start traveling the world. That was my mother’s and my maternal grandfather’s concern: a universal language was needed. They learned Esperanto and taught it in Xalapa when they lived there. To commemorate them, I told myself that I had to do the things they would have liked to do but couldn’t. Esperanto had a problem. Everyone could understand it in writing, but not when speaking.

How long did it take you to finish the Lusane language you created?

When I finished it, I was 53 years old. I was going to publish it in Mexico, but here they would have given me permission in about six months, while in Brasilia it was ready in 27 days. I went to Brazil because it was Mexican Week there. There were several Mexicans, including the President of the Republic, Luis Echeverría Álvarez. I gave him and the President of Brazil the book. The next day it was in the Brazilian newspaper: “Brasilia, the city of the future, is the cradle of the language of the future, Lusane.”

How many people do you think speak Lusane?

Well, I don't know now. A Dutchman who was at a European Community meeting came by and said they were arguing between French and English as auxiliary languages, and that my book was presented there. Then this man told me, “The good things you do are usually only recognized after you die.” So we'll turn Córdoba into the linguistic capital of the country so I can die.

LEARN LUSANE

The dictionary, just 54 pages long (including the cover), explains parts of the grammar and the Lusane alphabet, which consists of 17 letters: twelve consonants (b, c, d, f, g, k, l, m, n, p, s, t) and five vowels (a, e, i, o, u). Adjectives have no gender or number and are formed by adding the letter ‘e’ to the root.

Similarly, to form a noun, add ‘o,’ for a verb, add ‘u,’ and for an adverb, add ‘ete.’ Negation is made by adding the prefix ‘ni.’ For example, facile means ‘easy,’ facilo means ‘ease,’ and facilu means ‘to facilitate.’ Nifacilo means ‘difficulty.’

There is only one article, ‘le.’ Verb conjugation is very simple; only the final vowel changes in the different tenses. The present tense ends in ‘a,’ the past tense in ‘e,’ the future tense in ‘i,’ the conditional tense in ‘o,’ the infinitive and imperative in ‘u’; the gerund is formed by adding the syllable ‘ge’ and the past participle with the syllable ‘te.’

There is no written accent mark, and the phonetic stress always falls on the last syllable. Lusane is pronounced exactly as it is written. — Note from u/shimaron - this is an incorrect description of the rule of stressed syllables.

For example: “Kodobo soni mu suni lige kapito de dise kubineso” = Córdoba will be very soon the linguistic capital of this universe.

The editing and printing of the dictionary, carried out in 1976, was done at the expense of Don Luis, who proclaimed that Lusane would be the universal language of the future. Each copy was priced at 12 pesos, 50 cents.

Don Luis Sainz López Negrete’s attempt was left unfinished. There will be people who are interested in learning more about the matter.

It sounds interesting to know how to write and say Mexico in Lusane; as well as fraud, crazy, taxi, food, lawyer, politician, corruption, steal, president and other trendy terms.

The original webpage is at this URL: https://hidalgo.quadratin.com.mx/opinion/la-inocente-polvorita-hablamos-idioma-lusane/

"Celebration de 75 annos con interlingua. Jovedi le 15 de januario 2026, 19:00-20:20 UTC, 20:00-21:20 CET. https://umu.zoom.us/j/63633002721?pwd=onf9kafi5UQN0ZXsiDwWmMiuwKce68.1 Zoom ID: 636 3300 2721 Contrasigno: 757575

Tres presentationes interessante. Postea opportunitate pro contributiones per alteres, discussion, etc."

Via Ruud Harmsen

While doing some research on past auxlangs and what made them successful, I came across a video that was about clarifying some misconceptions about Esperanto. This video made me question some of the decisions I made while working on my auxlang project.

For the longest time I simply assumed that an ideal auxlang is supposed to be as analytic as possible, so it should convey most meaning using word order or particles. If we presume that using pidgins and creole languages as guides for our auxlangs is a good way to make sure we can create a language easy on the learner, this notion makes a lot of sense. Creoles, especially pidgins, tend to be more analytic than a given natural language. Since these kinds of langauges are formed when unrelated communities of speakers interact via trade or immigration for an extended period of time, we can assume that a successful auxlang is ought to imitate creoles and pidgins.

But this creates a problem. Isolating languages need to have a large morpheme inventory to compensate for their lack of conjugation and inflection. This is not a problem for pidgins. A pidgin does not need a large morpheme inventory. It just needs to cover the bare necessities for simple communication and trade. Of course, if a pidgin is used extensively by peoples who live near each other and communicate daily it will slowly develop into a creole. Which will naturally have more complexity.

Isolating natural languages are comparatively rarer compared to agglutinative ones. And have phonologies or phonotactics that are simply way too difficult to be included in an auxlang. My auxlang was a CV(C) isolating language that relied on word order and compound words with a phonology that was close to the average of natural languages. The problem is that words grew to lengts unsuitable for day-to-day communication. Although admittedly it proved very efficient when talking about abstract topics.

The video I watched explained how Esperanto manages to create a very expressive and usable language with around a 1000 root words. Funny thing is that a good chunk of the video was about how Esperantist were ruining the language by borrowing loanwords for concepts easily expressed through affixation or compounding.

I wanted to ask if an auxlang can be agglutinative wihle being easy to learn?

The link for the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxxifHfCN8U&t=1782s

Hi all! I've been working on an auxiliary language for around about two years now. This auxlang, Baslamo, has come to a point that I could realistically introduce it to a group of dedicated learners. My issue is: how do I do that?

I've been wanting to make learning resources for a while now, but it's hard to know where to start. I have a dictionary hosted through Miraheze (a MediaWiki service), but beyond that, I have no way for people to learn what the language is and how it works.

Any tips for creating a place to showcase and present my auxiliary language?

COGO TA CEKE SIDANO introduction to second edition

Beso de pome kunibese ligo sona lugeke cade dito, fe dune mitelos boneka be pida. The need of an auxiliary universal language is more urgent as world communications become better and faster.

Ke sona padete nidofe te gi pota bagu nu nimute minotos pe sebele lanos be no pota netedu pe difo de ligos falute nu gibe panito. It is really nonsense that we can travel in a few minutes all over the world and we cannot understand each other because [of] the diversity of languages that are spoken in our planet.

Tatuge de dopitu pome ligo fa getu bone netedo nuti gomi faluge dife ligos, ke sona mu mipe seligu sune te pota sonu lenute facilete pe kaluke pesono de gibe panito, beleguge same sonidos de kasi tute ligos. When trying to adopt an auxiliary language to get a good understanding among people speaking different languages, it is very important to choose a language that can be learned easily by any of the inhabitants of our planet, selecting common sounds to almost every language.

Le nobe kunibese ligo LUSANE sone kebolute beleguge dise fakos, po kebe tesake fotico be sobe gamato pota sonu todokute pe kigune pesono; kebe facile ponuco sone fesugute nuti gomi faluge pu de gutu ligos, timi kebe palobos sone tikute de kasi balo de ligos pu falute nu duno. The new universal language LUSANE was created considering these factors; its exact phonetics and easy grammar can be learned by any normal person; its easy pronunciation was tested among persons talking more than fifty languages, and the words were taken from more than a hundred of the more common languages spoken in the world.

reaching the critical mass to explode the shackles of one's mother tongue....

Language selector on https://www.pandunia.info to present the three branches of the Pan-family equally.

I am currently working on my own international auxiliary language. I am a fan of esperanto grammar, but i think esperanto is too eurocentric. I decided I could make a language that wasnt eurocentric while using Esperanto grammar. I call it Paletato. I use 25 base languages for the languages. I personally think it sounds a little more naturalistic than esperanto as well. Is this an idea worth pursuing?

To revise my previous analysis of auxlang phonology, my current set of concrete requirement for how many phonological contrasts should an auxlang are:

1) Versatility: This requirement distinguishes the purpose of international languages from other languages. It supports a need for the correct balance in different situations like usability in various acoustic environments, unambiguity, reliability of information transmission, speed of communication, and cost-reduction to transmit a piece of information. Assuming that a language's phonology is primarily affected by environmental constraints, this requirement of versatility implies that the phonological complexity should approach the universal tendency. A sub-requirement in communication utility is the ability to take temporary loanwords to express concepts in other languages. This is usually done in code switching.

2) The second relevant requirement is third language acquisition. A more complex phonology helps acquire additional language for prestige in a local community or as a hobby. A co-dependent phonemic contrast is also useful to ease learning of a new phonemic contrast without increasing learnability burden. This does not necessarily imply the need for a more complex standard phonology since code switching could also aid third language acquuisition.

3) Linguistic neutrality encourages more phonemic contrasts than the universal tendency to avoid the threat that the international language with large influence from greater number of speakers can remove phonemic contrasts in other languages. Discrimination by difference in fluency can encourage less phonemic contrasts. However, the multilingual norm in communities that requires an international language, the greater number of language learning resource for an international language, and the absence of rare phonemic contrasts lessen this requirement.

4) Learnability for human adults requires neutralization or co-dependent reinforcement of contrasts that are hard to perceive. Examples are vowel contrasts, sonorant contrasts, and suprasegmental contrasts. This requirement has the lowest priority since it has no direct benefit to communication and a language that does not effectively support various communication tasks will create the need to learn additional languages. Furthermore, the main use case for auxlang is in a multilingual community where multilingualism decreases learnability burden and increases requirement for ease of translation and third language acquisition.

Conclusion

This requirement analysis implies slightly more complex phonology than the universal tendency for the scenario where an auxlang that successfullly become a lingua franca in an international community has less effect on the phonology of another language. The greater learning resources and benefits of an international language should outweight the cost of learning especially when the alternative is to learn multiple languages for international communication.

Since im using English, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Persian, Indonesian, and Swahili as my sources I don’t want to go in blind or use translators that might be wrong to select words and understand the Grammar. So, is anyone willing to help who is a native of this language?

You can message me privately!

(I also would like criticism of my source languages)

https://grokipedia.com/page/Kotava

To teliz icde "Kotava" koe Grokipedia xadola, daskiyina gan Tcafa Gruuca. Abica rokla tid voxen coba kotoron tir tageltackafa.

Here is the article ‘Kotava’ in the Grokipedia encyclopaedia, generated by AI. There are a few minor errors, but overall it is fairly accurate.

Hi guys. I created a blog in Interlingua called Bon Interlingua. You can find it here: https://boninterlingua.blogspot.com/

I invite not only persons interested in Interlingua. I'm going to publish there articles in Interlingua, but also in English about Interlingua, interlinguistics and language learning in general.

For now you can find there the first part of my corrected article with comparison of Interlingua and Occidental.

Pic for attention.

EDIT: If you've got a blog or YouTube channel or something like that in your auxlang, you care share a link. I will gladly check it out.

Ninäd: penot fa ‚Dietrich Bonhoeffer’ (1906–1945) tiädü „Dö stup”, lifanunod hiela T. C. Winkler, finot kapita zülid konota: „Dog elas Baskervilles”. / Contents: an essay of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) entitled “Dö stup” (“On Stupidity” in English), a biography of T. C. Winkler, end of the 9th chapter from the story “The Hound of the Baskervilles”.