title_body: International Auxiliary Language created by a Japanese person I remember some facts about an international auxiliary language (IAL) created by a Japanese person, but unfortunately I both forgot the name of the inventor and the name of the IAL. Can someone help me out?
  
  Features that I can remember:
  
  
  Created by a Japanese around the turn of 19th to the 20th century
  Based on European languages (mostly latinate vocabulary)
  Having a schematic and simplified inflection
  When the author became aware of Esperanto he dumped his own IAL project and became one of the first Japanese Esperantists
  
  
  I want to know the name of the author and (if available) the name of the language. Additional information is always welcome!
upvoted_answer: Assuming that the OP misremembered a few facts, the language may be Babm, invented by the Japanese philosopher Rikichi [Fuishiki] Okamoto (1885–1963) and first published in 1962. It uses the Latin script as a syllabary (which is not the same thing as using a latinate vocabulary) and has "some degree of analytic inflection".