Swaagat!
Welcome to the Lingwa de Planeta site!
Swaagat is a Hindi word meaning "Welcome!" The double "a" denotes non-standard stress (not length of the vowel).
Lingwa de Planeta (abbreviated as LdP) is a new type of international language.
We believe that a global universal language, as a harmonious whole on the basis of most spoken national languages, will necessarily arise. And we are creating LdP as a prototype of the future global interlanguage, based on our vision of its obligatory features.
Lingwa de Planeta is a simple and naturalistic language based on the ten most widely spoken languages of the world, including six European — English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian — and Chinese, Russian, Hindi, and Arabic. Thus, LdP is being created as a language which may be perceived by the bulk of the planet's population not only as neutral, but as a common language with a certain smack of their native tongues. We attach much importance to psychology: elements of one's own native language in a constructed language evoke positive emotions and increase greatly one's motivation to learn it.
What is new in the Lingwa de Planeta project? These are its features taken as a whole: 1) the idea of Earth languages inevitably coming closer to each other and of a universal language arising; 2) the idea that this language will be an a posteriori naturalistic planned language unifying about 10 most spoken world languages and including many non-European elements; 3) the creation of LdP as a prototype for this language.
As a result, LdP differs from nearly all the other planned languages in that it imports many words and grammatical elements from non-European languages, and at the same time is highly naturalistic.
The European lexicon plays a key role in LdP, so it is easy for Europeans. However it would be a stretch to consider it a "euroclone" (a language constructed from purely European elements). We are counting on the interest of Russian, Chinese, Hindi and Arabic speakers.
The idea of LdP is humanistic: it is to catalyze the linguistic and general integration of mankind.
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Lingwa de Planeta is created by a small group of enthusiasts from St. Petersburg. We hope that the LdP-community will grow, and we invite everybody who is interested to join us. We are open for discussion and suggestions.
If you are interested, contact us by e-mail or share your ideas, comments, or suggest new words in our blog.
Acknowledgements
We would like to express our gratitude to Jens Wilkinson, the author of Neo Patwa language, for helping with the English version of our site; to Paul Bartlett, for his valuable remarks and help with our English-language documents; to Layla A., for help with Arabic (here are Layla's Arabic vocabulary lists); to Alexander Albrandt (Regensburg, Germany) for translating the reference materials into German; to Dr. Olivier Simon (France), the author of Sambahsa language, for his feedback and ideas; to Jean-Claude Caraco (France) for help with Esperanto.
Fo unitaa de Arda!
For the unity of the Planet!
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