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Ido
Etymology
fonto + linguo
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɔntoˈlinɡu̯o/
- Hyphenation: fon‧to‧lin‧guo
Noun
fontolinguo (plural fontolingui)
- source language
1909, L'Espérantiste: organe propagateur de la langue internationale "Esperanto", page 155:Sed esas un kozo interdiktenda tute : ul grafismo donanta a l'vorto en la linguo internaciona fonetismo tute diferanta de ita, quan lu posedas en la fonto-linguo.- But there are one thing that is totally forbidden: some graphisms given to the word in the international language's phonetism is totally different from this, which it possesses in the source language.
- either English, French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish; the six fontolingui of Ido
2008, Gonçalo Neves, Suplamenta Ido-Lexiko, Editerio Sudo, page 14:Do nula fonto-linguo justifikas la c di senco.- Therefore none of the source languages justifies the c in senco.