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Prospective Word Choices for a Provisional Global Core Vocabulary, from Basic English plus: O Key to Languages: A = Arabic, Al = Albanian, Am = Amharic, B = Bengali, Ba = Bambara, Bi = Bislama, Bm = Burmese, Bu = Bulgarian, C = Croatian, Ca = Catalan, Ch = Cherokee, Ck = Chinook, Co = Coptic, Ct = Cantonese, Cz = Czech, D = Dutch, Da = Danish, E = English, Es = Estonian, Et = Etruscan, F = French, Fa = Farsi, Fi = Finnish, Fu = Fulani, G = German, Gj = Gujarati, Gk = Greek, Gu = Guarani, Gy = Gypsy, H = Hindi, Ha = Hausa, He = Hebrew, Hk = Hakka, Ht = Haitian FC, Hu = Hungarian, Hw = Hawaiian, I = Italian, Ic = Icelandic, Ig = Igbo, In = Indonesian, Ir = Irish, J = Japanese, Ja = Javanese, Jm = Jamaican, K = Korean, Ka = Kampuchean, Kh = Kurdish, Kt = Kutuba, Ku = Kupang, L = Latin, La = Latinate, LF = Lingua Franca, Li = Lingala, M = Malay, Ma = Maharaja, Mc = Macaista, My = Malayalam, Na = Nahuatl, Ng = Nagamese, Oc = Occitan, P = Putonghua (Mandarin Chinese), Pa = Pashtu, Ph = Polish, Po = Portuguese, Qe = Quechua, Qi = Quiche, R = Russian, Ro = Romanian, Rm = Romansch, S = Spanish, Sa = Sanskrit, Sb = Serbian, Se = Seychellois, Sh = Swedish, Si = Singlish, Sl = Slovene, Sm = Saramaccan, Sn = Samoan, So = Shona, Sr = Sranan, Su = Sumerian, Sw = Swahili, T = Turkish, Ta = Tamil, Te = Telugu, Tg = Tagalog, Th = Thai, TP = Tok Pisin, Tt = Tetun, U = Urdu, V = Vietnamese, W = Wolof, We = Welsh, Y = Yoruba, Z = Zulu









Consonants as in English etc. except as shown: b c = /tsh/ [tʃ] ~ "Italian [c]" as in "ciao, cello" d f g = plosive as in "go" h j = /dzh/ [dʒ] ~ "English [j]" as in "jet" k (digraph{kh} = [x] ~ "ch" as in "Bach" or "loch") l m n p q = [q] ~ as in Arabic "qaf" r s t v w x = /sh/ [ʃ] as in Portuguese, Basque etc. y z (digraph{zh} = [ʒ] "French [j]") apostrophe {'} = glottal stop [ʔ] the five vowels are pronounced separately as in Spanish (e.g. "Port Said","patio")



A Ba - Bi Bl - By Ca - Cl Co - Cu D E Fa - Fi Fl - Fu G H I J - K L Ma - Me Mi - My N

O Pa - Pi Pl - Py Q Ra - Re Rh - Ry Sa - Sh Si - Sq St - Sy Ta - Ti To - Ty U - V W - X Y - Z Homepage


Basic English plus	Neo Patwa	Pandunia	Ceqli	Unish	Lingwa de Planeta	Ardano


oak					kwerka


oasis		vaha		oasis


oat	abena S				yanmai	zeubuok


oath, swear	apixa Sw


obey				obei	obedi


object				objet	obyekta


obscure				oskur


obstinate				ostinat	zide


occasion	kali M			okaso	ves


occupant				januo


occur, happen	hapen E			hapn E	okur E


occurrence, time	kali Si	bala	fwa F


o'clock						galas


octopus	nawita Bi			oktopus


odor, fragrance, smell	fasana Te			smel E	fauha


of				ov E	de	de


of course, naturally	tentu In					naturale


off	ofi E


offer				ofer


office	afisi In		byuro Ph	ofis		ofis


official	ofisa E				ofiisiale


often, frequent	casto R			lusi	oftem	txasto


oil (vegetable)	olyo Po		tel H	oil	olea	zet


oil (mineral)	olyo Po			oil	nafta


okra	bindi H


old	macu Qe			old	lao


olive	acetuna I	zetun		oliv	oliva	zeton


on	on E				on	poro


once				unmal


one	wan E		han K	un F	un	wahid


onion	basala A		bawang In	onion	luk	dikum


only, exclusively	tasol TP			onli	toka	aivin


open	open E			opn	ofni-nei


operation				operat


opinion				igen	opinia


opportunity				gihe


opposite				oposit


or		o		or	o	atau


orange	naranga Sa		cungwa Sw	oranj	oranje


orchard				pomar


order, command	manda S	komanda	parya R	order


organize				zosi	organisi


origin, source	asili Sw			orijin	sursa	orejin


ornament	onamen E			ornament	ornamenta


ostrich	ogongo Y			straus


other	bye P		ger H	odro S	otre	aro


out				out	aus


outside	waito P			outsaid	ausen	silamo


oven, kiln	ofen G		tanur H	ovn	forna


over			sima Po	ovr


overseas				hewe


owl	sowa Ph			oul


own, possess				oun	posesi


oxygen				osijen	oksigen


oyster	muli P	muli P		ostra


A Ba - Bi Bl - By Ca - Cl Co - Cu D E Fa - Fi Fl - Fu G H I J - K L Ma - Me Mi - My N

O Pa - Pi Pl - Py Q Ra - Re Rh - Ry Sa - Sh Si - Sq St - Sy Ta - Ti To - Ty U - V W - X Y - Z Homepage