Glosa

Glosa is a constructed international auxiliary language based on Interglossa (a previous draft of an auxiliary published in 1943). The first Glosa dictionary was published 1978. The name of the language comes from the Greek root glossa meaning tongue or language.

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Glosa is an artificial language created to help people from different countries communicate with each other, building on an earlier language design from 1943. Its first dictionary came out in 1978, and the name comes from a Greek word meaning "tongue" or "language."

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Language.name: Glosa
Language.nativename: Glosa
Language.image: Glosa symbol - A.D. 2007.svg
Language.imagescale: 0.7
Language.creator: Ronald Clark and Wendy Ashby, based on the Interglossa of Lancelot Hogben
Language.created: 1972–1992
Language.setting: international auxiliary language
Language.fam2: auxiliary language
Language.posteriori: Interglossa
Language.iso3: none
Language.glotto: none
Language.ietf: art-x-glosa
Language.notice: IPA

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inception: 1981-00-00
described at URL: langmaker.github.io/db/mdl_glosa.htm
Stack Exchange tag: conlang.stackexchange.com/tags/glosa
exact match: data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#Glosa

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History
Unclear history
Overview
Spelling and pronunciation
Vowels
Stress
Word classes
Primitives
Substantives
Phrases and clauses
Parts of speech
Personal pronouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Conjunctions
Question and answer words
Demonstratives
Prepositions
Numbers
Vocabulary
Compound words
Sample words and expressions
Phrases and expressions
Words
Word derivation
Texts
Sample texts
Language planning
The Lord's Prayer
References
External links

Glosa is an isolating language, which means that words never change form, and Glosa spelling is also completely regular and phonetic. As an isolating language, there are no inflections, so that words always remain in their dictionary form, no matter what function they have in the sentence. Consequently, grammatical functions, when not clear from the context, are taken over by a small number of operator words and by the use of word order (syntax). Being an a posteriori language, Glosa takes most of its vocabulary from Greek and Latin roots, seen by the authors as international in a sense by their usage in science.