Az egyszerű angol (Basic English) nevű mesterséges nyelvet Charles Kay Ogden alkotta meg és publikálta a Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar c. könyvében 1930-ban.

Ogden azt mondta, hogy hét év kell az angol nyelv megtanulásához, hét hónap az eszperantóhoz és hét hét az egyszerű angolhoz.

Nyelvtan A következő szabályok és a 850 alapszó alkalmazásával könnyedén kifejezhetjük magunkat ezen a nyelven. A többes számot -s jellel képezzük. Az angolhoz hasonlóan itt is érvényesek a következők: susogó hangokra végződő szavak esetén a többes szám jele -es, valamint a szó végi -y -ie-re változik. Az -er, -ing és -ed képzőkkel új szavakat alkothatunk. Határozókat képezhetünk a melléknevekből a -ly képző segítségével. Melléknévfokozás: középfokhoz az -er és a more, felsőfokhoz az -est és a most is használható. Az ellentétes fogalmakat az un- előtéttel képezhetjük. A kérdéseket fordított szórendben és do kérdőszóval képezzük. Az igéket és a névmásokat ugyanúgy ragozzuk, mint az angol nyelvben. Összetett szavakat két főnévből (milkman, wordend) vagy főnévből és iránymutatóból (sundown) képezhetünk. Mértékegységek, számok, pénzek, hónapok, napok, évek, időpontok és nemzetközi kifejezések használata az angol nyelv alapján történik. Tudományos, ipari és gazdasági kifejezések használata megengedett.

Alapszavak Műveletek (igék, irányok, egyéb nyelvtani szavak) – 100 szó come, get, give, go, keep, let, make, put, seem, take, be, do, have, say, see, send, may, will

about, across, after, against, among, at, before, between, by, down, from, in, off, on, over, through, to, under, up, with

as, for, of, till, than

a, the, all, any, every, little, much, no, other, some, such, that, this, I, he, you, who

and, because, but, or, if, though, while, how, when, where, why, again, ever, far, forward, here, near, now, out, still, then, there, together, well

almost, enough, even, not, only, quite, so, very, tomorrow, yesterday, north, south, east, west, please, yes

Dolgok – 400 általános szó account, act, addition, adjustment, advertisement, agreement, air, amount, amusement, animal, answer, apparatus, approval, argument, art, attack, attempt, attention, attraction, authority, back, balance, base, behaviour, belief, birth, bit, bite, blood, blow, body, brass, bread, breath, brother, building, burn, burst, business, butter, canvas, care, cause, chalk, chance, change, cloth, coal, colour, comfort, committee, company, comparison, competition, condition, connection, control, cook, copper, copy, cork, cotton, cough, country, cover, crack, credit, crime, crush, cry, current, curve, damage, danger, daughter, day, death, debt, decision, degree, design, desire, destruction, detail, development, digestion, direction, discovery, discussion, disease, disgust, distance, distribution, division, doubt, drink, driving, dust, earth, edge, education, effect, end, error, event, example, exchange, existence, expansion, experience, expert, fact, fall, family, father, fear, feeling, fiction, field, fight, fire, flame, flight, flower, fold, food, force, form, friend, front, fruit, glass, gold, government, grain, grass, grip, group, growth, guide, harbour, harmony, hate, hearing, heat, help, history, hole, hope, hour, humour, ice, idea, impulse, increase, industry, ink, insect, instrument, insurance, interest, invention, iron, jelly, join, journey, judge, jump, kick, kiss, knowledge, land, language, laugh, law, lead, learning, leather, letter, level, lift, light, limit, linen, liquid, list, look, loss, love, machine, man, manager, mark, market, mass, meal, measure, meat, meeting, memory, metal, middle, milk, mind, mine, minute, mist, money, month, morning, mother, motion, mountain, move, music, name, nation, need, news, night, noise, note, number, observation, offer, oil, operation, opinion, order, organization, ornament, owner, page, pain, paint, paper, part, paste, payment, peace, person, place, plant, play, pleasure, point, poison, polish, porter, position, powder, power, price, print, process, produce, profit, property, prose, protest, pull, punishment, purpose, push, quality, question, rain, range, rate, ray, reaction, reading, reason, record, regret, relation, religion, representative, request, respect, rest, reward, rhythm, rice, river, road, roll, room, rub, rule, run, salt, sand, scale, science, sea seat, secretary, selection, self, sense, servant, sex, shade, shake, shame, shock, side, sign, silk, silver, sister, size, sky, sleep, slip, slope, smash, smell, smile, smoke, sneeze, snow, soap, society, son, song, sort, sound, soup, space, stage, start, statement, steam, steel, step, stitch, stone, stop, story, stretch, structure, substance, sugar, suggestion, summer, support, surprise, swim, system, talk, taste, tax, teaching, tendency, test, theory, thing, thought, thunder, time, tin, top, touch, trade, transport, trick, trouble, turn, twist, unit, use, value, verse, vessel, view, voice, walk, war, wash, waste, water, wave, wax, way, weather, week, weight, wind, wine, winter, woman, wood, wool, word, work, wound, writing, year

Dolgok – 200 ábrázolható szó angle, ant, apple, arch, arm, army, baby, bag, ball, band, basin, basket, bath, bed, bee, bell, berry, bird, blade, board, boat, bone, book, boot, bottle, box, boy, brain, brake, branch, brick, bridge, brush, bucket, bulb, button, cake, camera, card, cart, carriage, cat, chain, cheese, chest, chin, church, circle, clock, cloud, coat, collar, comb, cord, cow, cup, curtain, cushion, dog, door, drain, drawer, dress, drop, ear, egg, engine, eye, face, farm, feather, finger, fish, flag, floor, fly, foot, fork, fowl, frame, garden, girl, glove, goat, gun, hair, hammer, hand, hat, head, heart, hook, horn, horse, hospital, house, island, jewel, kettle, key, knee, knife, knot, leaf, leg, library, line, lip, lock, map, match, monkey, moon, mouth, muscle, nail, neck, needle, nerve, net, nose, nut, office, orange, oven, parcel, pen, pencil, picture, pig, pin, pipe, plane, plate, plough, pocket, pot, potato, prison, pump, rail, rat, receipt, ring, rod, roof, root, sail, school, scissors, screw, seed, sheep, shelf, ship, shirt, shoe, skin, skirt, snake, sock, spade, sponge, spoon, spring, square, stamp, star, station, stem, stick, stocking, stomach, store, street, sun, table, tail, thread, throat, thumb, ticket, toe, tongue, tooth, town, train, tray, tree, trousers, umbrella, wall, watch, wheel, whip, whistle, window, wing, wire, worm .

Tulajdonságok – 100 általános szó able, acid, angry, automatic, beautiful, black, boiling, bright, broken, brown, cheap, chemical, chief, clean, clear, common, complex, conscious, cut, deep, dependent, early, elastic, electric, equal, fat, fertile, first, fixed, flat, free, frequent, full, general, good, great, grey, hanging, happy, hard, healthy, high, hollow, important, kind, like, living, long, male, married, material, medical, military, natural, necessary, new, normal, open, parallel, past, physical, political, poor, possible, present, private, probable, quick, quiet, ready, red, regular, responsible, right, round, same, second, separate, serious, sharp, smooth, sticky, stiff, straight, strong, sudden, sweet, tall, thick, tight, tired, true, violent, waiting, warm, wet, wide, wise, yellow, young .

Tulajdonságok – 50 szó awake, bad, bent, bitter, blue, certain, cold, complete, cruel, dark, dead, dear, delicate, different, dirty, dry, false, feeble, female, foolish, future, green, ill, last, late, left, loose, loud, low, mixed, narrow, old, opposite, public, rough, sad, safe, secret, short, shut, simple, slow, small, soft, solid, special, strange, thin, white, wrong .

Példamondatok Néhány példa a come használatára:

Smells come in the building. – A szagok beáradnak a házba. This statement comes out of a book. – Ez a megállapítás könyvből ered. Flowers come up. – A virágok kinyílnak. Prices come down. – Az árak csökkennek.

További információk

Charles Kay Ogden, Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar , London: Paul Treber & Co., Ltd. (1930). http://ogden.basic-english.org/basiceng.html https://web.archive.org/web/20040417113231/http://wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Basic_English_template (Basic English szavak, melyek segítséget nyújtanak más nyelvek tanulásához) http://simple.wikipedia.org – Egyszerűsített angol nyelven íródott Wikipédia, mely olyan cikkeket tartalmaz, amely hasonlít a Basic Englishre Basic English Wordlist: https://web.archive.org/web/20170204132842/http://www2.educ.fukushima-u.ac.jp/~ryota/word-list.html

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