Sona

Sona is an oligosyntheic language designed by Kenneth Searight in the 1930s. It is described in his book Sona: An Auxiliary Neutral Language (1935).

Although the book title indicates that it was an auxlang, Sona is actually quite difficult to classify. It has some characteristics of an engineered language (self-segregating morphemes within compound words and a limited number of morphemes). It contains a mixture of a priori and a posteriori words. To a small degree it is a philosophical language with words of related meanings often having similar sounds.

External Links

• Sona Mailing List
• Sona forum --- no activity since 2010
• Sona Circle (tutorials and vocabularies) --- dead link
• Online Sona/English dictionary and translation aid
• Sona: An Auxiliary Neutral Language --- Seabright's book lovingly typed out and preserved by Harrison et al