amadunia

About

A language you can finish learning.

Amadunia — ama love, dunia world — is a constructed world auxiliary language built on one principle: take the easiest feature from every language. If a sound or a rule is hard for anyone on Earth, it is out.

Esperanto proved in 1887 that a constructed language can live, but its roots are almost entirely European. Amadunia draws from the largest language families of the whole world:ba (eight) is Chinese, pat (four) is Indonesian and Tagalog, ca (tea) is at home in Chinese, Hindi, Turkish, Swahili and Russian alike,dunia spans Arabic, Hindi, Swahili, Indonesian and Turkish,ama is Latin, kita is Indonesian. Every continent should hear something familiar.

Design rules5

What the language holds itself to.

  1. Zero exceptions

    Every rule works everywhere. A word that would need a rule of its own is not admitted.

  2. Written as spoken

    One letter, one sound. No silent letters, no letter that can be read two ways.

  3. No conjugation, no gender, no articles

    Grammar you can learn in a day. The verb never changes; one pronoun covers he and she.

  4. Global balance

    No language family dominates. The dictionary lists each word's sources so this can be checked.

  5. Already-global words stay

    hi, ok, taksi, foto — vocabulary the world already shares is free.

Status300 roots

Under construction, in public.

Amadunia was born on September 2, 2026. The vocabulary stands at 300 roots, past the 80, 180 and 300 milestones, and is heading for 600 — enough for A2. That is lower than a natural language needs at the same level, because things can be described with what is already there — not, as the project itself long assumed, because words can be compounded. The language has never formed a single compound word. A root here is simply a word: with no conjugation, no affix and no compound, nothing multiplies, so the 300 roots are 300 words to look up. Esperanto's nine hundred are multiplied by some forty affixes into tens of thousands, which is worth saying because the smaller number flatters this language rather than that one.

The grammar needed for A2 is complete. What remains open is gathered on one page, with what each question blocks. Follow the commits in the language repository to watch a language grow in real time.

What it refuses314 guarantees

Zero exceptions is a claim. This is the enforcement.

Every rule on this site is checked on every change to the language — 314 of them in 143 groups, from "three consonants in a row" to "a lesson uses a word nothing has taught yet". The list is generated from the checker, so it cannot describe a rule the checker no longer has.

Read what the checker refuses.

Licence

Free to use, share and build on.

The language and all its materials are licensedCC BY-SA 4.0 and live inamadunia-lang. This site reads them directly from that repository; its own code is MIT, in amadunia.com. Suggestions and contributions are welcome in either.