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'''Adam-man''' is an [[international auxiliary language]] that was designed & promoted by Albert Webster Edgerly, under the pseudonym Edmund Shaftesbury some time during the late 19th century. His work was published in 1903 under the title '''The Adam-man Tongue, the Universal Language of the Human Race'''.


Edgerly was a well educated man and he presented his ideas and his work very nicely, but he was no language inventor. In the 600+ pages of his book, which contains his plan for universal adoption of Adam-man as a universal interlanguage, a rambling treatise on the phonology of English, grammar lessons, practical exercises, short and long lexicons, written text samples (in print as well as cursive), he as much as says Adam-man is just simplified English with a horrific alphabet to write it with.


The basics: all verbs and nouns are reduced to "regular" forms. There are no strong verbs or strong nouns. Verbal morphology is reduced to two forms, ROOT and ROOT + -ed. Nouns all take -ez or -s in the plural. Adam-man is a little more innovative in the pronoun department, where the 2nd person is re-divided into proper singular and plural:


<pre>
1      ik      noo
2      yoo     voo
3      vey     vey
3m     heek
3f     hek
3n     it
</pre>


Numerals are also innovative as compared to English:


<pre>
1   wun
2   tood
3   ter
4   for
5   faiv
6   sig
7   sen
8   yeyt
9   nain
10  ten
</pre>


An example of Adam-man from the book:


[[File:Adamman Example Text.jpg]]



[http://www.frathwiki.com/File:The_Adam-man_Tongue.pdf Adam-man Manifesto & Grammar]

==External link==

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster_Edgerly Webster Edgerly] - inventor (if inventor be the appropriate term) of Adam-man
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralstonism Ralstonism] - Edgerly was heavily involved in a variety of pursuits, among which were ethnically motivated dietary regimens, self-help books, personal magnetism (mind control), euthenasia movement, and a pure race ideology


[[Category:Conlangs]]
[[Category: Auxiliary conlangs]]

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