An analysis of the major achievements of the last quarter of a century
(means of transport and of communication, microelectronics,
the conquest of Space, the globalisation of Society, computer networks,
blocks of countries, the proliferation of International organisms
and so on) would seem to suggest the need for a scientific study
into the possibilities of a universal language. A real need exists,
every day more pronounced and we consider that this is the right
time for this investigation. As a part of this project a discussion of
possible alternative solutions is proposed (the use of a multi-lingual
approach, English, multilingual intercompression, an international
auxiliary language, "manufactured" languages, automatic translation,
natural language, among others). There is also a definition of the
theoretical specifications which this language should meet, taking
into account all the current needs and the sectors involved (voice
recognition automatic translation, operative systems, programming
languages, documentation, simple cross-cultural learning). The idea
is based on a dual focus: person-to-person communication and person-to-machine communication. In order to achieve thi doubled
to achieve this double objective we shall select a set of universal sounds and phonemes which
are common and undcrstood by all people. The selection of this set
of universal sounds and phonemes will be such that it will be easy to
undertake a spectral discrimination. The phonetic, lexical and
grammatical organisation of the language will be established according to distinct levels of difficulty.
Design and development will be based on the Internet as a
platform for investigation, cooperation and the consensus of hundreds
of experts and a strategy is proposed for learning and spreading
the language
