Lingua Franca Nova was designed to be a particularly simple, consistent, and easy to learn language for international communications. It has a number of positive qualities: 1. * It has a limited number of phonemes. It sounds similar to Italian or Spanish. 2. * It is phonetically spelled. No child should have to spend years learning irregularities. 3. * It has a completely regular grammar. It is approximately as restrained in this regard as English or Indonesian. 4. * It has a limited and completely regular set of productive affixes for routine word derivation. 5. * It has well-defined rules for word order, in keeping with many major languages. 6. * It has a word base strongly rooted in modern Romance languages. These languages are themselves wide-spread and infl