Comparison between Ido and Novial
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Novial was created as an international auxiliary language by Danish linguist Otto Jespersen, who introduced it to the world in 1928. Jespersen had previously been a co-author of Ido, which started to take form around 1907. Both languages base their vocabularies primarily on prominent Germanic and Romance languages, but differ grammatically in several important respects. Novial is more analytic in its grammar than Ido, and, in Jespersen's view, more natural.
Comparisons among Ido, Novial, and other notable international auxiliary languages have formed an important part of interlinguistic studies. For example, both Ido and Novial were among the languages investigated by the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA), which developed Interlingua.
Alphabets and pronunciation
{{See also|Novial#Phonology|Novial#Orthography}}
Both Ido and Novial are written using the modern Latin alphabet (a.k.a. the English alphabet), with no diacritics.
In the Phonetic Novial spelling system (1928, 1930) the main differences between the Novial vocabulary and those of other systems come from the suppression of the letters c and z. The letter s plays an important part but tends to distort the visual appearance of some words ({{lang|nov|sientie}} = science, {{lang|nov|sesa}} = cease, {{lang|nov|sivil(i)}} = civil).
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! Ido !! IPA!! Novial | ||
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| A, a | {{IPA|/a/}} | A, a |
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| B, b | {{IPA|/b/}} | B, b |
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| C, c | {{IPA|/ts/}} | TS, ts |
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| CH, ch; | {{IPA|/tʃ/}} | CH, ch |
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| D, d | {{IPA|/d/}} | D, d |
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| E, e | {{IPA|/e/}} or {{IPA|/ɛ/}} | E, e |
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| F, f | {{IPA|/f/}} | F, f |
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| G, g | {{IPA|/ɡ/}} | G, g |
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| Dj, dj | {{IPA|/dʒ/}} | J, j |
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| H, h | {{IPA|/h/}} | H, h |
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| I, i | {{IPA|/i/}} | I, i |
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| J, j | {{IPA|/ʒ/}} | J, j |
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| K, k | {{IPA|/k/}} | K, k |
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| L, l | {{IPA|/l/}} | L, l |
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| M, m | {{IPA|/m/}} | M, m |
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| N, n | {{IPA|/n/}} | N, n |
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| O, o | {{IPA|/o/}} or {{IPA|/ɒ/}} | O, o |
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| P, p | {{IPA|/p/}} | P, p |
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| QU, qu | {{IPA|/kw/}} or {{IPA|/kv/}} | QU, qu |
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| R, r | {{IPA|/r/}} | R, r |
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| S, s | {{IPA|/s/}} | S, s (also Z,z) |
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| SH, sh | {{IPA|/ʃ/}} | SH, sh |
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| T, t | {{IPA|/t/}} | T, t |
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| U, u | {{IPA|/u/}} | U, u |
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| W, w | {{IPA|/w/}} | W, w (before a vowel)
U, u (after a vowel) |
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| V, v | {{IPA|/v/}} | V, v |
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| X, x | {{IPA|/ks/}} or {{IPA|/ɡz/}} | X, x |
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| Y, y | {{IPA|/j/}} | Y, y |
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| Z, z | {{IPA|/z/}} | Z, z (also S, s) |
Personal pronouns
{{See also|Novial#Personal_pronouns,_subject_and_object}}
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|+Pronouns !rowspan="3"| !colspan="7" valign="top"|singular ! colspan="7" valign="top" |plural !rowspan="3" valign="top"|indef. |
| rowspan="2" valign="top"|1st
!colspan="2" valign="top"|2nd !colspan="4" valign="top"|3rd !rowspan="2" valign="top"|1st !rowspan="2" valign="top"|2nd ! colspan="5" valign="top" |3rd |
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| familiar
!formal !m. !f. !n. !pan-gender !m. !f. !n. !pan-gender !Reflexive |
| English
|align="center"|I |align="center"|you (thou) |align="center"|you |align="center"|he |align="center"|she |align="center"|it |align="center"|he/it |align="center"|we |align="center"|you |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"|they | |align="center"|one |
| Ido
|align="center"|me |align="center"|tu |align="center"|vu |align="center"|il(u) |align="center"|el(u) |align="center"|ol(u) |align="center"|lu |align="center"|ni |align="center"|vi |align="center"|ili |align="center"|eli |align="center"|oli |align="center"|li |su |align="center"|on(u) |
| Novial
|align="center"|me |align="center"|vu |align="center"|vu |align="center"|lo |align="center"|la |align="center"|lu(m) |align="center"|le |align="center"|nus |align="center"|vus |align="center"|los |align="center"|las |align="center"|lus |align="center"|les |se |align="center"|on |
Verbal systems
The grammars of Novial and Ido differ substantially in the way that the various tenses, moods and voices of verbs are expressed. Both use a combination of auxiliary verbs and verb endings. However, Novial uses many more auxiliary verbs and few endings, while Ido uses only one auxiliary verb and a greater number of verb endings.
As with most international auxiliary languages, all verb forms in Ido and Novial are independent of person (1st, 2nd or 3rd persons) and number (singular or plural).
Language sample for comparison
Here is the Lord's Prayer in both languages:
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:Patro nia, qua esas en la cielo, :tua nomo santigesez; :tua regno advenez; :tua volo facesez :quale en la cielo tale anke sur la tero. :Donez a ni cadie l'omnidiala pano, :e pardonez a ni nia ofensi, :quale anke ni pardonas a nia ofensanti, :e ne duktez ni aden la tento, :ma liberigez ni del malajo. | Novial version:
:Nusen Patre, kel es in siele, :mey vun nome bli sanktifika, :mey vun regno veni; :mey on fa vun volio :kom in siele anke sur tere. :Dona a nus disidi li omnidiali pane, :e pardona a nus nusen ofensos, :kom anke nus pardona a nusen ofensantes, :e non dukte nus en tentatione, :ma liberisa nus fro malu. |
References
External links
{{Wikibooks|Novial}}
- [http://www.literaturo.ido.li/kgd.pdf Kompleta Gramatiko di la Linguo Internaciona Ido] (187-page PDF file.)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20091028180714/http://geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5037/AIL.html An International Language]: Otto Jespersen's 1928 book which introduced Novial. Contains discussion of earlier auxiliary languages including Ido.
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20091029033240/http://geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5037/AILido.html An International Language: The Delegation. Ido] Chapter of the first book about Novial which discusses Ido (specific criticisms of Ido are mentioned in various chapters of the book).
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20091029033239/http://geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5037/OJcom.html OTTO JESPERSEN His Work for an International Auxiliary Language] By Henry Jacob, 1943, Comparative Texts comparing Ido, Novial, Occidental, Latino sine flexione, Esperanto and English.
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20091028180703/http://geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5037/PAL.html A PLANNED AUXILIARY LANGUAGE] By Henry Jacob, 1947. A detailed comparative study of interlinguistics with full grammatical details of five systems of demonstrated usefulness, Esperanto, Ido, Occidental, Novial, and Latino sine flexione.
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20091028180703/http://geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5037/nonmed.html About Direct Derivation in International Languages] By Friedrich Auerbach, 1930 (in Novial).
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20091028180708/http://geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5037/comp.html A passage from Machiavelli in Ido and Novial]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20091028231330/http://geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5037/index.html Contains many links pertinent to Novial, Ido, and Otto Jespersen]
- [https://cals.conlang.org/language/novial+ido/ Comparison between Ido and Novial] at Conlang Atlas of Language Structures.
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