What is Sambahsa?

• Sambahsa is a unique international language mixing the qualities of natlangs used for international communication with the regularity of auxlangs.

• It uses the Roman alphabet, with no diacritics, which are often difficult to write with keyboards made for different languages. Its regular orthography works with combination of letters which can produce a rich phonetic system. Furthermore, it debases very little words from Western European languages, so that they can be easily recognized.

• Its grammar is based on Indo-European, a family of languages now spoken by half the world population. It has almost no irregularities and once it is assimilated, you can deduce immediately the whole conjugation.

• Many auxlangs limit their source-languages to Western Europe, while others are made out of a patchwork from nearly every language on Earth. On the contrary, the vocabulary of Sambahsa consists of Indo-European roots, Greco-Latin technical vocabulary, and selected roots shared by many languages from different linguistic families from Iceland to Japan. It offers the best balance between neutrality and real internationality.

• Its grammar is as precise as those of the natural languages, and can render without any difficulty any text written in such a natlang.

• Problems often disregarded by auxlangers are natural appearence, tersity and brevity. The result is that many interested people give up the study of auxlangs and finally get back to English, finding it more “efficient”. On the contrary, Sambahsa displays these three advantages and can compete qualitatively with English or any other language used for international communication.

Why should I learn Sambahsa?

• Its grammar is finished, while its vocabulary already contains several thousands of words. (Who believes that a vocabulary can be finished?)

• You’d like to learn a foreign language, but you don’t know which one? Then learn Sambahsa!

• Its grammar has preserved the basic patterns of Indo-European (you can see the work of Carlos Quiles’ team at http://dnghu.org ) but has got rid of irregularities and useless complicated forms. For example, if you have learnt that the conjugational present ending of the 3rd person of plural is –ent in Sambahsa, you won’t be surprised later to discover that it is –and in Parsi. Sambahsa should be used as an auxiliary administrative language in countries with no previous Indo-European official language such as China, Korea or Japan.

• Its vocabulary extends beyond Indo-European and includes many loanwords shared by languages spoken in the Muslim world, as well as some common to Far East languages. By learning Sambahsa, you learn roots shared by hundreds of millions, even billions of people, and all this within a coherent system.

• Thus, Sambahsa is able not only to be an efficient instrument of international communication; it is also an incentive to discover other cultures!