Key facts
- Created by
- Charles Kay Ogden
- Setting and usage
- controlled natural language
- Purpose
- Constructed language Basic English
- Writing system
- English alphabet , Unified English Braille
- Sources
- Modern English
- Iso 639 3
- –
- Ietf
- en-basiceng
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- native label
- Basic English
- described at URL
- langmaker.github.io/db/mdl_basicenglish.htm
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Basic English (a backronym for British Academic Scientific International and Commercial English) is a controlled language based on standard English, but with a greatly simplified vocabulary and grammar. It was created by the linguist and philosopher Charles Kay Ogden as an international auxiliary language, and as an aid for teaching English as a second language. It was presented in Ogden's 1930 book Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar.
The first work on Basic English was written by two Englishmen, Ivor Richards of Harvard University and Charles Kay Ogden of the University of Cambridge in England. The design of Basic English drew heavily on the semiotic theory put forward by Ogden and Richards in their 1923 book The Meaning of Meaning.