Tutonish
Encyclopedia
Tutonish is a constructed language
created by Elias Molee
. He worked on it for several years before publishing it for the first time in 1902. He reformed it twice, first in 1911 and under the name Allteutonish and then in 1915 under the name Neuteutonish.
It was proposed as an "Anglo-German unifying language", for English and Germanic languages
speaking areas, not as an international language
in the full sense of the word. In creating it, Molee was clearly influenced by Giuseppe Peano
but chose to create a language for Aryan
people based on Germanic roots instead of Romance ones. However, he created an "inter-romance" version of his language to be used among Romance speaking people
.
Louis Couturat
and Léopold Leau
wrote, in their Histoire de la langue universelle, not very enthusiastically about Tutonish:
("Fifteen rules") and a simple orthography, without majuscule.
The "Aryan" version vocabulary was built on roots taken from English, German and Scandinavian languages, while "Romance" version's vocabulary was mostly
built on Latin and Romance languages.
:
The Romance version of the Lord's Prayer
:
Numbers from one to ten:
The origins of Tutonish - e urspringe ov teutonik:
Some sentences:
dau shal not baer falsh vitnesu gegn dauo nabor - Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
ein union spiek, makn up ov deuch, english, skandinavish and hollandi, for to agenfererein al tutonish folka into ein spiek mitin feivti jiera.
Constructed language
A planned or constructed language—known colloquially as a conlang—is a language whose phonology, grammar, and/or vocabulary has been consciously devised by an individual or group, instead of having evolved naturally...
created by Elias Molee
Elias Molee
Elias Molee was an American journalist, philologist and linguist.-Background:Elias Molee was born in Muskego, Wisconsin, the son of John Evenson Molie and Anne Jacobson Einong. The original spelling of the family name was Molie...
. He worked on it for several years before publishing it for the first time in 1902. He reformed it twice, first in 1911 and under the name Allteutonish and then in 1915 under the name Neuteutonish.
It was proposed as an "Anglo-German unifying language", for English and Germanic languages
Germanic languages
The Germanic languages constitute a sub-branch of the Indo-European language family. The common ancestor of all of the languages in this branch is called Proto-Germanic , which was spoken in approximately the mid-1st millennium BC in Iron Age northern Europe...
speaking areas, not as an international language
International language
International language may refer to:* Love* Music* Mathematics* International auxiliary language - a language meant for communication between people from different nations who do not share a common native language...
in the full sense of the word. In creating it, Molee was clearly influenced by Giuseppe Peano
Giuseppe Peano
Giuseppe Peano was an Italian mathematician, whose work was of philosophical value. The author of over 200 books and papers, he was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory, to which he contributed much notation. The standard axiomatization of the natural numbers is named the Peano axioms in...
but chose to create a language for Aryan
Aryan
Aryan is an English language loanword derived from Sanskrit ārya and denoting variously*In scholarly usage:**Indo-Iranian languages *in dated usage:**the Indo-European languages more generally and their speakers...
people based on Germanic roots instead of Romance ones. However, he created an "inter-romance" version of his language to be used among Romance speaking people
Romance languages
The Romance languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family, more precisely of the Italic languages subfamily, comprising all the languages that descend from Vulgar Latin, the language of ancient Rome...
.
Louis Couturat
Louis Couturat
Louis Couturat was a French logician, mathematician, philosopher, and linguist.-Life:Born in Ris-Orangis, Essonne, France, he was educated in philosophy and mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure...
and Léopold Leau
Léopold Leau
Léopold Leau was a French mathematician, primarily known for his many well-documented ties to international auxiliary languages....
wrote, in their Histoire de la langue universelle, not very enthusiastically about Tutonish:
Without criticizing the project of Monsieur Molee, he must permit as to note that he is inspired by motives absolutely opposite to human and civilization scopes of international language and to neutrality postulated in it.
Characteristics
Tutonish had a simple phonetic pronunciation, a simple grammar based on the English grammarEnglish grammar
English grammar is the body of rules that describe the structure of expressions in the English language. This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses and sentences...
("Fifteen rules") and a simple orthography, without majuscule.
The "Aryan" version vocabulary was built on roots taken from English, German and Scandinavian languages, while "Romance" version's vocabulary was mostly
built on Latin and Romance languages.
Examples
The Aryan version of the Lord's PrayerLord's Prayer
The Lord's Prayer is a central prayer in Christianity. In the New Testament of the Christian Bible, it appears in two forms: in the Gospel of Matthew as part of the discourse on ostentation in the Sermon on the Mount, and in the Gospel of Luke, which records Jesus being approached by "one of his...
:
vio fadr hu bi in himl; holirn be dauo nam; dauo reich kom; dauo vil be dun an erd, als it bi in himl; giv vi dis dag vio dagli bred; en fergiv vi vio shulds, als vi fergiv vio shulders; en lied vi nit inzu fersieku but frie vi fon ievl. let so bi.
The Romance version of the Lord's Prayer
Lord's Prayer
The Lord's Prayer is a central prayer in Christianity. In the New Testament of the Christian Bible, it appears in two forms: in the Gospel of Matthew as part of the discourse on ostentation in the Sermon on the Mount, and in the Gospel of Luke, which records Jesus being approached by "one of his...
:
Nuo padr, ki bi in siel, sanktirn bi tuo nom, tuo regnu ven, tuo vol bi fasn sur ter kom in siel; don nu hoy nuo diali pan; et pardon nu nuo debits, kom nu pardon nuo debitors; et induk nu non in tentu ma delivr nu de mal.
Numbers from one to ten:
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| een | tvo | tri | fir | fem | ses | syv | ot | ni | ti |
The origins of Tutonish - e urspringe ov teutonik:
elias molee, e ferfasr ov teutonik isn (war) gebärn 3a einam (januari) 1845 ov eltera, wer komen fon norvegia to 1 platz 30 kilometra fon e stad ov milwaukee ... ale nakbara havn file kinda, wer kanen nur spreka sine eigena teutonike moderspraka.
Elias Molee, the author of tutonish, was born on January 3, 1845 to parents who emigrated from NorwayNorwayNorway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
, ina place 30 kilometers from Milwaukee ... in the entire neighborhood there was a lot of other children who only spoke their own Germanic mother tongues.
Some sentences:
dau shal not baer falsh vitnesu gegn dauo nabor - Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
ein union spiek, makn up ov deuch, english, skandinavish and hollandi, for to agenfererein al tutonish folka into ein spiek mitin feivti jiera.
External links
- Molee's books on Archive.org