Mondial language
Mondial is an international auxiliary language created by the Swedish school principal Helge Heimer, in the 1940s. It received favourable reviews from several academic linguists but achieved little practical success. Grammars and dictionaries were published in Swedish, French, English, Italian, and German. Orthography. Mondial uses 26 letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet, where k and w only occur in proper nouns and loan words. Grammar. Tonic accent. The tonic accent in Mondial in general falls on the penultimate syllable in words that end in a vowel or s: on the last syllable in nouns that end with  a consonant other than s: A diphthong counts as one syllable: Exceptions to this show the placing of the tonic accent with an accent: Pronouns. The reflexive, third person singular pronoun (himself, herself, itself) is se. The pronoun su means "her own", "his own" or "its own". Note that the third person singular possessive is the same for both masculine and neuter ("sui"). "Votre" can be used as second person singular possessive as a respectful form. Verbs. Verbs conjugate as follows, using "savar" (to know) as an example: Verbs do not conjugate by person: "yo, tu, il, nu, vu, li  sava" (I, you, he, we, you, they know). Mondial has a single irregular verb, the verb ser (to be): The auxiliary verb har (have) is used in much the same way as English, conjugating in the same way as the above plus the past participle of the main verb: Passive voice is formed with the auxiliary verb var and the past participle of the main verb: The verb to be ("ser") can be used in the same way as var when no ambiguity arises: An example of where "var" and "ser" cannot be used interchangeably: Sample. Translation. Tristan Bernard , the humorist, one day sat with a friend in a first-class carriage to Versailles. He immediately lit a good cigar, which he began to smoke with visible satisfaction. Then, a gentleman entered and told Tristan Bernard, in an irritating tone, to put out his cigar or to go to another compartment. No response. The gentleman, becoming angry, repeated his request, but in vain. Beside himself with indignation, he quickly left the compartment and returned several moments later with the conductor. "This gentleman has nothing to say here," said Tristan Bernard then; "he has a second-class ticket, and this  is first class." Confused and angry, the passenger had to present his ticket to the conductor and accompany him immediately to a second-class compartment. When they had gone, Tristan Bernard's friend asked him how he could have known that the other passenger had a second-class ticket. "It came out of his vest pocket," answered Tristan Bernard, "and I saw that it was the same color as mine."