Preface to Mondlango



By Oscar Mifsud



There is no doubt that most people agree that the Language Barrier
exists. It is also
certain that again most people agree that one or perhaps the best
solution to the
problem is a Common Language for the World. Such a language must
necessarily be
an artificial one, for no existing National language can really
pretend to be
sufficiently suitable for the purpose. Further, no Nation can
afford to modify its
native language enough to accommodate the rest of the world.



The perfect World Language must have at least five qualities which
are absolutely necessary
to help people learn a new language easily and quickly.



a) The alphabet must be simple, without strange characters and
without accents for
simplicity and with the computer in mind.

b) Each letter in the alphabet must have one and only one clear
sound to avoid
confusion; and every single letter must be pronounced.

c) This (b) makes the language 100% phonetic, which is also
another must. This makes
it easy to read and write as well as pronounce correctly every time.

d) The grammar must be as simple as possible, and without
exceptions.

e) It must have an easy and simple way of economizing on
vocabulary to enable the
student to learn it more quickly

f) The above five qualities must ALL be present.



The qualities mentioned above for a perfect World Language
immediately rule out as unsuitable
any and every existing National language for the simple reason that
no National language can be
changed or even modified. And that makes it necessary to use an
artificial, made for the purpose
language, which will naturally favor no Nation in particular. No one
is expected to abandon
his/her own native tongue; but every one is encouraged to next learn
this proposed new World Language.



Several attempts have been made in the past; but the only survivor
has been Esperanto, which has
all the above qualities except that: a) it has some unpopular
accents, b) it does not use the letters
q, w, x, and y.



In July 2002, a small Chinese team led by HeYafu came up with a new
solution to the language
problem. To begin with, they recognized two basic facts. One,
Esperanto has great merit.
Two, Practically all Nations are trying to learn English. Now this
beautiful and very rich
language happens to have absolutely none of the above-mentioned
qualities to recommend it as a
perfect World Language; and yet it is spreading like wild fire
throughout the world. So, in my
opinion, it was very clever to fuse these two important facts into
one, using English for many
word roots and phoneticizing them as far as possible, and Esperanto
for all its wonderful qualities,
eliminating at the same time the two shortcomings mentioned above.
In this way the student has
the best of both worlds. He is learning a useful World Language and
at the same time he is
preparing to learn English as well, thus hitting two birds with one
stone in the shortest possible
time and with as little effort as possible.

This New Language was originally named Ulango (U for Universal, and
lango for Language).
However, as the pronunciation of U presents a problem, the team
accepted to change it to
Mondlango, pure and simple. Thousands of Chinese people are already
learning it.
This new language, like a new born babe is naturally not perfect,
but in time it is bound to grow
and mature into the New World Language it deserves to be MONDLANGO.