Babm
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| Babm | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Rikichi (Fuishiki) Okamoto |
| Date created | 1962 |
| Setting and usage | international auxiliary language |
| Users | none (date missing) |
| Category (purpose) | |
| Category (sources) | a priori language |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | art |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
Babm (pronounced [bɔʔɑbɔmu]) is an international auxiliary language created by the Japanese philosopher Rikichi [Fuishiki] Okamoto (1885–1963). Okamoto first published the language in a 1962 book, but the language has not caught on even within the constructed language community, and does not have any known current speakers. [1] The language uses the Roman alphabet as an abjad: each letter marks an entire syllable rather than a single phoneme by omitting the vowels. To readers used to the Roman script, this creates a rather oddly compacted script with far more consonant letters than vowel letters.
[edit] Bibliography
- Okamoto, Rikichi [Fuishiki] (1962). Universal auxiliary language, Babm. Tokyo: The author. [Author appears as Fuishiki Okamoto.]
- Okamoto, Rikichi [Fuishiki] (1964). Sekaigogakuron. Tokyo: Minseikan. [In Japanese.]
[edit] External links
- Babm: The Simplest Auxiliary Language (excerpts from the 1962 book)
- "Babm and Lin" by Ray Brown
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