Babm

language
name=Babm
creator=Rikichi (Fuishiki) Okamoto
date=1962
setting=international auxiliary language
speakers=none
fam1=constructed languages
fam2=int. auxiliary languages
posteriori=a priori language

Babm (pronounced|bɔʔɑbɔmu) is an international auxiliary language created by the Japanese philosopher Rikichi [Fuishiki] Okamoto (1885–1963). Okamoto first published the language in a 1962 book, but the language has not caught on even within the constructed language community, and does not have any known current speakers. [http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~jwieser/IALattempts.htm] The language uses the Roman alphabet as an abjad — each letter marks an entire syllable rather than a single phoneme by omitting the vowels. To readers used to the Roman script, this creates a rather oddly compacted script with far more consonant letters than vowel letters. However, with a little practice, Babm becomes easier to read.Fact|date=July 2007

Bibliography

*Okamoto, Rikichi [Fuishiki] (1962). "Universal auxiliary language, Babm". Tokyo: The author. [Author appears as Fuishiki Okamoto.]
*Okamoto, Rikichi [Fuishiki] (1964). "Sekaigogakuron". Tokyo: Minseikan. [In Japanese.]

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/9801/lenguas/babm.html Babm: The Simplest Auxiliary Language] (excerpts from the 1962 book)
* [http://www.carolandray.plus.com/Briefscript/Babm_Lin.html "Babm and Lin"] by Ray Brown