Lingua sistemfrater

Frater (lingua sistemfrater), an a posteriori international auxiliary language, published in Frater (Lingua sistemfrater). The simplest International Language Ever Constructed, in 1957 by the Vietnamese linguist Phạm Xuân Thái. The grammar can be compared to Indonesian language grammar.

Lingua sistemfrater
Created by	Pham Xuan Thai
Date	1957
Setting and usage	International auxiliary language
Purpose	constructed language International auxiliary language Lingua sistemfrater
Sources	A posteriori language with a predominantly Romance vocabulary and an Asian-based grammar
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	None

Phạm Xuân Thái gave it more than 6,000 words for the usage of a very extensive vocabulary.

Alphabet

This language uses 18 letters:
"a, e, i, o, u" "b, d, f, g, j, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t"

- help for best pronunciation:
"j" is pronounced as"z", "e" as "ei", and "o" as "ou". All the other letters have their normal pronunciation according to the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Stress

The stress is placed on the last syllable of the word. Every letter is pronounced; there are no silent letters.

Article

There is no indefinite article or definite article.

Personal Pronouns

	Singular					Plural
	first	second	third			first	second	third
English	I	you	he	she	it	we	you	they
Frater	mi	ni	ili	ili	ili	mis	nis	ilis

Possessives are formed by adding the preposition ot before the pronoun.

Nouns

The noun in Frater is invariable.

Plurals can be formed by adding multi (many) to the end of the noun:

mensa (table) - mensamulti (tables)

Adjectives

The adjective in Frater is invariable and is always placed after the noun; except for cardinal numbers.

	Frater	English
Comparative of superiority	plus	more than
Comparative of inferiority	plusne	less than
Comparative of equality	je	as...as
Absolute superlative	tele	very
Superlative of superiority	plasuni	the most
Superlative of inferiority	plasunine	the least

Numbers

The cardinal numbers in Frater:

1 - uni 2 - bi 3 - tri 4 - kuadri 5 - kuinti 6 - ses 7 - sep 8 - okta 9 - nona 10 - deka

11 - dekauni 12 - dekabi 13 - dekatri

20 - bideka 24 - bidekakuadri

30 - trideka 40 - kuadrideka

85 - oktadekakuinti

100 - senti 367 - trisenti-sesdeka-sep 600 - sessenti

1000 - mil 1000000 - milion

Ordinal numbers are formed by placing the cardinal number after the noun.

Verbs

The verb in Frater is invariable in person and in number.

Grammatical form	Frater	English
Infinitive	ide	to think
Present	Mi ide	I think
Past	Ni ide pas	You thought
Future	Ili ide futur	He/she/it will think
Imperative	Ide!	Think!
Conditional	Mis ide probable	We would think

The passive voice is formed by adding the auxiliary verb es before the infinitive: Ilis es trauma (they are wounded).

Syntax

The syntax in Frater is: Subject - Verb - Object.

Questions are formed by placing the verb before the subject.

Interrogative words include: antropkia (who), kia (what), plaskia (where), temkia (when), prokia (why), kak (how), and multikia (how much; how many).

The Lord Prayer

Frater Pater mis in sel, nam ni es santa, nasionroi ni aribe, desir ni es fakto, sur geo omo sin sel. Don mis jurdis pani jur mis. Perdon erormulti mis, omo mis perdon filone mis. Ne direk mis a proba, e libere mis ot benne.

English Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be your name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

References

• Pham Xuan Thai. "Frater (Lingua sistemfrater). The simplest International Language Ever Constructed". TU-HAI Publishing-House, Saigon (Republic of Vietnam), 1957.

External links

• "Frater.com". Official website (English, Esperanto, Interlingua)
• "Lingua Sistemfrater". Archived from the original on 28 February 2016.
• "Lingua Sistemfrater: The Simplest International Language Ever Constructed". (SCRIBD)