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Preferred term

lfnLingua Franca Nova  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Lingua Franca Nova (abbreviated LFN) is an auxiliary constructed language created by Dr. C. George Boeree of Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania. Its vocabulary is based on the Romance languages French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan. The grammar is highly reduced and similar to the Romance creoles. The language has phonemic spelling, using 22 letters of either the Latin or Cyrillic scripts.

ISO 639-3 code

  • lfn

Notation

  • lfn

In other languages

  • Lingua franca nova

    French

  • Lingua Franca Nova

    German

  • Lingua Franca Nova

    Italian

  • Portuguese

  • Lingua Franca Nova

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/lfn

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