What is Baslamo?

Baslamo is an international auxiliary language: a constructed language that aims to help people all across the world communicate with each other. These languages are meant to be as easy to learn as possible, to help people connect to one another through a shared language.

The ethos of Baslamo is to be just like a natural language—with none of the irregularity. With a vocabulary from all around the world and easy-to-understand grammar, Baslamo aims to be as natural to speak as possible while having none of the difficulties of actual natural languages.

Currently, Baslamo has reached a stable "Alpha" state, where the grammar, syntax, and derivation methods have been set in stone. See "Development" for more information.

The making of Baslamo

What it used to be

Baslamo first started out as an IAL largely inspired by Esperanto—in fact, it used the same part of speech ending-vowel-rule, though it substituted -i with -u. In fact, this is why the name "Baslamo" has an ending -o; the name is a portmanteau of baso (now basa) + saramo (now salam).

I moved away from this system in favor of a structure that had no part-of-speech specification, instead allowing (almost) all words to act as verbs, nouns, and/or adjectives.

din baslamo — The Baslamo Discord

There is an official Discord server where people can discuss and learn Baslamo. This place also serves as a public forum for suggesting changes to Baslamo now that the language has reached a stable state. Any people who are interested, even if they don't plan to learn Baslamo, are welcome to join!

Development

Any constructed language will be ever-growing and ever-changing, but as it is right now, Baslamo is ready to speak! The basis of Baslamo is ready for effective communication. If there's no word for something, then anyone is free to request or recommend a word!