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Lingua Franca Nova is a constructed language based on romance
vocabulary and creole grammar. It is the creation of George Boeree,
co-developed by several people who regularly write in LFN in over the
net.
Carlos Thompson, 12 Sep 2004
Lingua Franca Nova is a constructed language with roughly 200 speakers.
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 French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan. The grammar is highly reduced and similar to the Romance creoles. The language is phonetically spelled, using 21 letters of either the Latin or Cyrillic alphabets.George Boeree, 26 May 2008, quoting from Wikipedia
About the language, all romance-based Euroclones look the same. Grammar
is, however, much more creole-like in LFN than in
Interlingua. Language design goals are also
different.
Carlos Thompson, 12 Sep 2004
The author of the flag is Stefan Fisahn.
Carlos Thompson, 12 Sep 2004
They (we?) have recently decided for a flag design, here’s the message that presented the flag in both LFN and English:
On the page you can also have a look to a new symbol / flag for LFN. Something about the idea behind:The flag/symbol is displayed at the official website. As far as I know, no actual flag has been made or flown, but I might be wrong.Perhaps we should start a poll, wether we adopt the symbol as official for LFN?
- The symbol use rainbow colors (this colors are also used by the peace movement).
- The shape comes from the flag of the Seychelles. The Seychelles use creole as official language.
- The shape looks like a sunrise.
- And the five colors could represent the five continents.
The proportions of the flag are 2 by 1. There are five colored rays,
blue, green, yellow, orange, and red, meeting at the lower left and
opening from bottom to top and left to right. At the top, the blue
takes up 2/5, the green 2/5, and the yellow 1/5 of the length, in that
order. At the right, the yellow takes up 1/5, the orange 2/5, and the
red 2/5 of the height, in that order. The design was inspired by the
flag of the Seychelle Islands (where a French Creole
is spoken), combined with the rainbow flags
often used to signify peace and brotherhood. The image it intends is of
the sunrise.
George Boeree, 26 May 2008
image by George Boeree, 26 May 2008
An earlier flag, nicknamed “la europijon”.
George Boeree, 26 May 2008
image by Carlos Thompson, 13 Sep 2004
I don’t think it was ever made in fabric, but I might be
wrong.
Carlos Thompson, 13 Sep 2004
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