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Ekspreso (eso) is a constructed language. The name derives from the Latin word expressus ("expressed"), the past participle of exprimere (literally "to squeeze out"), from ex-, "out of, from," + premere, "to press."Ekspreso is termed the "language for people in a hurry" (in Ekspreso, la lingua pro la persona in haste). It is an easy-to-learn language meant to serve as an international auxiliary language quite useful for people who want to meet foreigners and learn about other countries and cultures. It was invented by Jay Bowks, a high-school teacher from New Hampshire, in 1996.
Ekspreso aims to be easier and faster to learn as a second language than Esperanto, particularly for speakers of European languages. It is designed to be easier than any national language (especially highly irregular and/or non-phonetic languages such as English, French, and Chinese).
1 Alphabet
aThe letter A is the first letter in the Latin alphabet. History The letter A probably started as a pictogram of an ox head in Egyptian hieroglyphs or the Proto-semitic alphabet. By 1500 BC, the Phoenicians had given the letter a linear form that served as bThe letter B is the second letter of the modern Latin alphabet. History The letter B probably started as a pictogram of the floorplan of a house in Egyptian hieroglyphs or the Proto-semitic alphabet. By 1500 BC, the Phoenicians had given the letter a line cIf you were looking for the C, C++, or C# programming languages then see C programming language, C plus plus, or C Sharp programming language C is the third letter of the Roman alphabet. In the Etruscan language, plosive consonants had no distinctive voic dThe letter D is the fourth letter of the Latin alphabet. History The Semitic letter Dalet probably developed from the logogram for a fish or a door. In Semitic, Ancient Greek (Modern Greek /d/) and Latin the letter was pronounced /d/, in the Etruscan alph eThe letter E is the fifth letter in the Latin alphabet. History E is derived from the Greek letter epsilon which is much the same in appearance (Ε, ε) and function. The Semitic h probably first represented a praying or calling human figure fThe letter F is the sixth letter in the Latin alphabet. History F developed from the digraph FH that stood for /f/. The Etruscans were the inventors of this digraph; F on its own stood for /w/ in Etruscan as in Greek (where the letter F,called Digamma in gG is the seventh letter in the Roman alphabet. History The letter G was created by the Romans because they felt that C was not an adequate letter to represent both /k/ and /g/. Fascinatingly, the alleged inventor is a known historical figure, Spurius Carv hH is the eighth letter of the Latin alphabet. History The Semitic letter kh t) probably represented the phoneme /X/ ( pharyngeal voiceless fricative) ( IPA [h]). The form of the letter probably stood for a fence. Early Greek H stood for /h/, but later on i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Note: c, q, w, x, and y are seldom used except in foreign terms.
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