Peoplese is a global lingua franca designed to enable people around the planet to communicate clearly and accurately without learning unnecessarily complicated grammar and memorizing irregular spellings of thousands of words. Peoplese is English simplified, regularized, clarified, updated, plus additions of numerous learner-friendly devices from Chinese, Spanish, Finnish, and several other languages, along with clear guidelines for forming new words that will ultimately further simplify and beautify the language.

Thousands of pages of literature have been published exclusively in Peoplese language.

A seven-year-old boy, who knew the English alphabet, learned to spell Peoplese in six 15-minute sessions.  Years later he could accurately spell any Peoplese word he heard, e.g. "rīm" for English "rhyme". English spelling, by comparison, will take him ten more years of schooling.

Key Points:

• Peoplese is completely comprehensible to English speakers.
• Speak without fear -- there is no "wrong" Peoplese. It is a language infrastructure capable of ethnic nuance.
• Autoknow words like "wrist·clock" render Peoplese intuitive and fun to learn.
• Non-English speakers can learn casual Peoplese within months, not years, utilizing this website.
• English speakers need not learn Peoplese, because Peoplese speakers will understand them. And because the languages are so alike, English speakers who read this entire website will be able to speak and write Peoplese.
• Thus, Peoplese is a humanitarian lingua franca aimed at greatly lightening the memorization load of children, and providing access to the benefits of knowing an international language for adults too busy to spend years learning the intricacies of a naturally evolved language.

To get started, click on links in the Resources paragraph at the end of this page.

Language Infrastructure. As a global lingua franca, Peoplese is a language infrastructure -- not a one-size-fits-all language -- thereby opening the door to cultural variation. For example, Chinese Peoplese may contain fewer noun-articles ("a", "an", and "the", non-existent in their language), which Europeans would be in the habit of inserting. Therefore casual speakers cannot make a mistake -- which eliminates a major impediment to learning a language not your own. Creative writers are encouraged to put their ethnic stamp on their species' language.  Yet, for professionals, Peoplese has clearly defined guidelines (articulated on the Grammar page) enabling exactitude necessary for government, law, science, high-level commerce, medicine, technology, aviation, and so on.

Basic Features. Peoplese vocabulary, based mainly on English words, consists of root-words to which are added fixed-meaning prefixes and suffixes (separated by a half-length hyphen).  Spell۔ing of root-words never changes. Peoplese uses completely regular spelling, only four irregular verbs, no irregular plurals, no silent letters, hyphenated prefixes and suffixes with unique fixed meanings, self-explanatory autoknow words, both familiar and formal pronouns, unlimited derivative possibilities, gender-specific function nouns, consistent and logical punctuation, simplified grammar, a revamping of European-centered geopolitical names, native names for most nations, and logical, consistent geographical names based on satellite mapping -- among numerous other features. Designed especially for non-native English speakers, intuitive and unambiguous Peoplese, with many hundreds fewer vocabulary words and only four (instead of thousands) irregular derivatives to memorize, is much easier to learn than any existing major language. Peoplese is designed to self-improve with age.  Guidelines for creating new words are herein provided.  Success depends on Peoplese speakers passing on the good but not the bad, person to person or via the Peoplese Community forum. The good is intuitive, pleasant-sounding, and requires no or little memorization.

Two Spelling Systems.  The Peoplese Alike English version retains English spelling while using Peoplese structure. Alike English is the training version of pure Peoplese: the Sound Spell Same (SSS) version that is based on English but with a few changes. In pure Peoplese, if you hear a word, you know how to spell it, and if you read a word you know how to pronounce it. Therefore, no time spent learning how to spell words. (Details on Spelling page.)

Pronunciation. Standard Peoplese pronunciation uses English alphabet sounds, although with a French “j” and slightly rolled Spanish  “r”. But, as currently with English, people from different ethnicities will speak Peoplese with sounds from their own languages. The best Peoplese will imitate Brazilian Portuguese "fala cantando", a singsong way of speaking sentences.

For Everybody. Peoplese, as a species language, is for all people. English, the temporary default international language, effectively locks out the huge portion of humanity that does not have the time and resources for their children to attend ten or more school years learning the inconsistencies and strict grammar requirements of a naturally evolved foreign language. Peoplese, by contrast, can be learned to travel fluency level within months: in the time required to learn 300 root words plus some prefixes and suffixes (most words copied from English language), and put them together using your native language's grammar. If you already know some English, you are almost there. Street-vendor Peoplese can be learned in days or weeks. This website is translated into major languages from which the vast majority of the world’s people can learn Peoplese.

Why So Easy? Peoplese is so quick and easy to learn and remember for many reasons, all presented on this website, outlined in Overview (top link). Here are two:
            (1) Peoplese has more than 1,500 autoknow words. Autoknow words are typically composed of two common words separated by a mid-dot (a mid-level period). If you know both common words within the autoknow word, you automatically know the meaning of the word. For example, “wrist·clock”. If you know “wrist” and “clock”, you know the meaning of wrist·clock, even if you never previously encountered it; ten years later, you will still know it. English speakers, contrarily, must memorize that “watch” means, besides “look at something in motion”, “a small clock strapped on a wrist”, and when they hear or read the word must distinguish it by context from its other meaning. Autoknow examples: bread·bun (roll), dance·pub (disco), float·vest (life jacket), jail·van (paddy wagon), log·canoe (dugout). Many autoknow words are identical to English two-word combinations (which in English are sometimes separate words, sometimes separated by a hyphen, sometimes with no separation – differences that in English must be memorized, but in Peoplese are separated by a mid·dot.  Tow truck, towtruck or tow-truck – do you remember which? In Peoplese, tow·truck – no memorization required.  Autoknow words are ideal for naming the new things that our changing world is bringing us – rather than, as in English, adding yet another definition to an existing word or another new word to memorize. How long would it take you to learn 1,500 words so well that, if you haven’t heard or read them years later, you would still remember them? How much money would it cost the government or private schools or tutors to teach you?
            (2) Peoplese is formed from root words that never change spelling, and are clearly separated from prefixes and suffixes by a half-length hyphen called “hyphnette”. For example, “re۔tell۔d”, meaning "told again". The prefix “re” followed by a hyphnette means “again”. Hyphnette plus “d” converts any verb to past tense.  The root-word "tell" stands out, never changes.

Why Peoplese? Firstly, for our children. Middle-school graduates in native English-speaking nations, for example, have memorized irregular spellings of more than 3,500 words, while learning complex grammar, strictly enforced.  More than a billion children around the planet are attempting the same task. Ecological Peoplese is much simpler, much more quickly (and cheaply) learned, no spelling memorization required -- yet fully comprehensible to English speakers.  For children, playtime instead.  Secondly, to enfranchise all people everywhere -- anybody with Internet access, no money required -- with the ability to communicate globally: in this one-world era a basic human right.

Vision. In the twenty-first century, languages are dying, and with them their magnificent millennia-old cultures, which, once gone, are gone forever. We can all enjoy the wonders of the emerging global culture without forsaking our native cultures. Retaining our native language -- the glue of our native culture -- while communicating with others in a freely available, easy-to-learn global lingua franca -- that is the vision of Peoplese.

Resources. The complete language, a jumpstart page, an online dictionary, a Peoplese spellcheck, and a learning section are presented on this website -- all free. A slide presentation illustrates key features. Books written exclusively in Peoplese language are available on www.amazon.com. A writing sample of Peoplese language is herein available for viewing, and you can read literature (short stories) written in Peoplese (free). You are welcome to share your views with the Peoplese Community.

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