MiIamalovedunia!world
A language revolution for the world. Amadunia takes the easiest feature from every language it can find and leaves the rest behind. Twenty letters, one sound each, and a grammar short enough to read in an afternoon.
Alphabet20 letters
The whole alphabet fits on one line.
Five vowels and fifteen consonants. Every letter is pronounced, always the same way, in every word.
Grammar26 rules
Every rule holds. That is the whole design.
A language earns its exceptions over centuries. Amadunia has not spent them. If a word would need a rule of its own, it does not get in.
One letter, one sound
No silent letters, none that change value by position, none that can be read two ways. A word is pronounced exactly as written.
dunia world — read exactly as written, every letter sounded.
Syllables stay simple
Never more than two consonants in a row. If you can say "banana" and "taksi", you can say anything in Amadunia.
taksi tak-si — taxi
No two words of one length are a sound apart
Same length, one letter different. A word one sound longer is not a minimal pair, which is what four candidates were once wrongly rejected for — though it can still sit near enough to refuse, the way ese sits one deletion from es. The ban is the narrow one; the distance is measured either way. The rule that kills most candidates, and between l and r it is absolute: telling beli from beri is the hardest contrast on Earth for well over a billion speakers, and a world language cannot rest a distinction on it. It outranks how widely a word travels — dom replaced ruma, after eighty-four uses, because ruma stood against luma.
ruma → dom replaced, because luma is light and the pair differs only in l against r.
The verb never changes
Time is one particle placed before the verb: suda for the past, saufa for the future. Nothing to conjugate, no agreement with the subject.
Mi suda kula pan. I ate bread.
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