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 Ido: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
The request by the Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language to the International Association of Academies in Vienna to select an international language was rejected in May, 1907.
The Delegation, which had been founded by Louis Couturat[?], decided to meet as a Committee in Paris in October 1907 to discuss the adoption of a standard international language among the various competitors that had been devised up to that time.
Beaufront had himself argued for reforming Esperanto prior to having been selected to the Delegation, and during the proceedings he argued in favor of Esperanto over other languages; his "conversion" to the Ido camp upon the presentation of that language was thus consistent with his earlier positions.
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 Louis de Beaufront - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marquis Louis de Beaufront (1855 – 1935) was an early advocate of Esperanto and was almost solely responsible for its early diffusion in western Europe as well as the first French Esperantist.
He was a member of the Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language and attended its meetings in 1907.
He was probably the principal author of the original Ido project which impressed the Delegation Committee and led to the reform of Esperanto by the Permanent Commission.
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 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> ro:Ido   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This delegation made a formal request to the International Association of Academies in Vienna to select an international language; the request was rejected in May 1907.
The Delegation thereupon decided to meet as a Committee in Paris in October 1907 to discuss the adoption of a standard international language among the various competitors that had been devised up to that time.
Adoption of a word is done through consensus, after which the word will be made official by the union.
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 The Delegation for the Adoption of an International Language - Ido (A. L. GUÉRARD)
The aim of this new society was to create a movement of opinion in favour of an international language, and to secure the adoption of one by means of a scientific study of the problem.
We may now consider the work of the Delegation in three different lights: as the choice of an impartial scientific jury; as the embodiment of the reform spirit in Esperanto; as an independent scheme, Ido, to be judged solely on its own merits.
The international language idea would suffer a long eclipse; and when it emerged again, it would be in a form totally free from "Esperantisms" -most probably in the form of simplified Latin.
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 math lessons - Esperanto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Ido was proposed by the Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language in Paris in October 1907.
Esperanto is not an official language of any country, although there were plans at the beginning of the 20th century to establish Neutral Moresnet as the world's first Esperanto state, and the shortlived artificial island micronation of Rose Island used Esperanto as its official language in 1968.
An estimate of the number of Esperanto speakers was made by Sidney S. Culbert, a retired psychology professor of the University of Washington (himself a longtime Esperantist who commented regarding the logical structure of Esperanto: "If the world could be structured that efficiently").
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 History of our language
In June 1907 the Delegation for the adoption of an international auxiliary language in accordance with its statutes elected a committee which had to decide which artificial language was the most suitable to be introduced in international communications.
In the course of the discussions it soon became evident that not a single member of the committee was prepared to accept a language of the a priori type containing words chosen arbitrarily, but that everyone was in favour of making the fullest use of the elements which were already international in the natural languages.
If we preferred definitely to mention Esperanto as the basis which was adopted in an altered form, that was done out of regard for the Esperantists in thanks for their important work in making the idea of world language known and popular, and not for any other cause whatever.
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 Ido - Why Ido
In January 1901 the Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language was founded.
Thus an unfortunate rift developed between those who were devoted to the original Esperanto, and those who accepted the decision of the international Committee and thus the reformed Esperanto.
It is an unnecessary complication in a language intended to be simple to learn and to use, and Zamenhof himself acknowledged that it is superfluous.
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 Esperanto - Gurupedia
international auxiliary language, a second language for everyone in the world, rather than to replace all existing languages in the world.
Esperanto belongs to the Esperantists: Developers of constructed languages are usually extremely possessive of their brain-children and reject any attempt by others to contribute or have a significant role in the development of the language.
No new languages or dialects have formed through fragmentation of Esperanto as they do in natural languages, due mainly to the regular nature of the language and its intended field of use.
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 Bolak Manual
One of these is his division of the language into small words (motules), which carry the burden of the structural roles, and large words (granmots), which provide the semantic content.
Bollack was prepared to accept the decision of the Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language in favour of Ido, having tried, and failed, to win the support of that body for his own project.
As an aside, one can think of Ostwald, one of the 'eminent' people involved in the initiation of Ido, who created the proposal 'Weltdeutsch' when friendly contacts with the French were no longer popular in his country.
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 The Truth about the Delegation in 1907
That language is the result of a selection made not by the Committee itself (which in principle selected Espo [Esperanto]!) but by the Permanent Commission instituted by the Committee aluded to.
For seven years they had studied the problem of I. [International Language] and agreed in their general conclusions: their reformist opinions were known (History of the universal language; Report on the current state of I. Intentionally "the Committee decided to add Mr.
Evidently, the committee wanted, with the stock of international material, an autonomous language, regular and simple, a result not obtainable from the principle of naturalness, because the natural languages are neither regular nor simple; the most scientific efforts are incapable of uniting contradictory concepts.
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This language was devised over a period of several years by the Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language, founded in 1901.
Novial is an acronym for NOVi Internationali Auxiliari Lingue (New International Auxiliary Lanmguage).
The IALA was an international organization formed after World War II by the International Research Council and by the Associations for the Advancement of Science in the United States, Great Britain, France, and Italy, as well as by the American Council on Education, the American Council of Learned Societies, and other bodies.
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 Basic Grammar of the International Language Ido   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
An active verb is made passive by using the suffix es between the root and the required verb ending.
The suffix -ab- is used with verbs as an optional substitute for equivalent longer forms ending in -inta, and preceded by the appropriate form of the verb esar (to be).
In an international language it is essential to make the meaning clear, since different languages give different meanings (and sometimes more than one meaning) to verbs derived from nouns (as, for example, with the English verb "to stone").
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 The International Language Ido - Questions and Answers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
As an auxiliary language, it is used beside existing languages, the continued existence of which is essential to the cultures and richness of the world.
Zamenhof was an oculist; Couturat was a mathematician and philosopher; de Beaufront had been the leading advocate of Esperanto in France; Jespersen was a Danish philologist who was an expert on English; Lorenz was a physicist, and Ostwald was a chemist who won the Nobel prize for his work.
Some languages have difficult sounds of their own, such as the English th or the German ch, and these are not used in Ido.
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 The Auxlang-Dialog Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The IAL Basis Project is an open project to explore the common ground between the major systems of international auxiliary language.
All the RefList languages have a regular method for expressing plural number, which is the same for all substantives.
All the RefList languages have a single paradigm of conjugation in the finite tenses of the verb, to which all verbs conform.
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 Drab as a fool, aloof as a bard » Standards roundup
Let us not forget of course that UTF-8 is an encoding for Unicode, which is based on the international standard ISO / IEC 10646.
Speaking of standards and languages, I feel I should point out there is one language to rule them all, an artificial auxiliary language called Ido.
I was once asked if Esperanto was an ISO standard, but I don’t think you can standardise a living language.
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 Raporto de Emile BOIRAC: Parto III
At the end of the year 1906, the Delegation sent the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Wien a letter requesting that it inscribe the question of an international language in the agenda of the International Association of Academies, which was to have its triennial meeting in Vienna in 1907.
You know that it studied many international language projects, and that Esperanto was presented to it by M. de Beaufront.
Furthermore, in that moment, we have to think that the textbooks, exercises and dictionaries of this new language were already completely read, because they came out of the printers only a few months later, and that interval would not have been enough to write them from scratch and have them printed.
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 The Ultimate Ido - American History Information Guide and Reference   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The name of the language can have its origin in the Ido pronunciation of "I.D." (from "International Delegation", see below) or the word ido, "descendant (of Esperanto)".
Ido has the same typical five-vowel system (a, e, i, o, u have their IPA values) as Esperanto, and most of the same consonants, omitting two consonant phonemes used by Esperanto, IPA and /dʒ/.
Furthermore, Ido has an epicene third-person animate pronoun lu in addition to its masculine (il), feminine (el), and inanimate (ol) third-person pronouns.
www.historymania.com /american_history/Ido   (1418 words)

  
 Ido : search word
Ido has the same typical five-vowel system (a, e, i, o, u have their IPA values) as Esperanto, and most of the same consonants, omitting two consonant phonemes used by Esperanto, /x/ and /dZ/.
The pronouns of Ido were revised to make them more acoustically distinct than those of Esperanto (all of whose pronouns end in i; the first person plural pronouns mi and ni may be difficult to distinguish in a noisy environment).
Category:International auxiliary languages be:Іда bg:Идо ca:Ido da:Ido de:Ido et:Ido es:Ido eo:Ido fr:Ido io:Ido ia:Ido id:Ido it:Ido hu:Ido nyelv nl:Ido ja:イド語 no:Ido pl:Ido pt:Ido ro:Ido ru:Идо fi:Ido sv:Ido
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 Ido - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Ido (pronounced /id?/), a constructed language, was created to become a universal second language for speakers of different linguistic backgrounds, easier to learn than any ethnic language.
Photograph of the International Ido Congress in Dessau, Germany, in 1922.
Ido has the same typical five-vowel system (a, e, i, o, u have their IPA values) as Esperanto, and most of the same consonants, omitting two consonant phonemes used by Esperanto, IPA /x/ and /?/.
www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Ido   (4542 words)

  
 Ido Travel Phrases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Ido was formulated by the Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language (1900-1907).
It is a reformed version of the constructed language of Esperanto.
Do you have a language or dialect to add?
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