Mirad Grammar

Welcome to a textbook on the grammar of Mirad.  Formerly known as Unilingua, Mirad is an artificially constructed auxiliary language (conlang) developed originally by Paris-based author Noubar Agopoff [1] as a serious medium for easy, regular, expressive, and logical international communication. This textbook is a revision of the language with many new features, plus access to a bilingual dictionary containing over 209,000 word/expression pairings, over ten times the size the original Unilingua vocabulary. The vocabulary is internally consistent and was developed systematically from scratch with no relation to existing natural languages.

Yubjo, ha mir gonbio yansauna gabyuxea dalzeyn. (Soon, the world will share a common auxiliary language.)

Table of Contents

Introduction Why Mirad? Alphabet Pronunciation Syllabification Stress Phonotactics Parts of Speech Nouns Articles Adjectives Adverbs Determiners Numbers Pronouns Verbs Prepositions Conjunctions

Interjections Hybrids Greetings and Euphemisms Acronyms and Abbreviations Onomatopoeia Vocabulary Formation Word Families Syntax Sample Texts Analyzed Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4 Lesson 5 Mirad-English Dictionary Flaws in Mirad