Egyszerű angol nyelv

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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