Atlas was created in 2017 and has vocabulary borrowed from Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, English, French, Hindi, Indonesian/Malay, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Atlas has a vocabulary of just 524 root words which can be used to construct compound words.
Atlas has 18 consonants and seven vowels. Unlike many IALs, Atlas excludes /v/, /z/ and /j/.
Consonants[]
Bilabial
Labiodental
Alveolar
Postalveolar
Velar
Labiovelar
Glottal
Nasal
m
n
Plosive
p b
t d
k g
Affricate
d͡z
t͡ʃ
Fricative
f
s
ʃ ʒ
h
Approximant
w
Lateral approximant
l
Trill
r
Vowels[]
Atlas has five phonemic vowels and two vowels, /ɪ/ and /ʊ/, that are only used in diphthongs.
Front
Back
Close
i
u
Near-close
ɪ
ʊ
Close-mid
e
o
Open
a
Orthography[]
Atlas has 23 letters of the Latin alphabet excluding f, j and y. Notably, Atlas writes /f/ with a v.
Letter
a
b
c
d
e
g
h
i
k
l
m
n
o
p
q
r
s
t
u
v
w
x
z
IPA
a
b
t͡ʃ
d
e
g
h
i
k
l
m
n
o
p
ʒ
r
s
t
u
f
w
ʃ
d͡z
Pronouns[]
Pronouns can be made masculine with -wer and feminine with -lar. It is unknown whether this can be applied to the first-person singular, third-person inanimate or impersonal pronouns, so the table below leaves those empty for the time being.
Epicene
Masculine
Feminine
Singular
1st person
wi
2nd person
di
diwer
dilar
3rd person (animate)
zi
ziwer
zilar
3rd person (inanimate)
ti
Impersonal
vi
Plural
1st person
win
winwer
winlar
2nd person
din
dinwer
dinlar
3rd person (animate)
zin
zinwer
zinwar
3rd person (inanimate)
tin
Verbs[]
Verbs are marked with -e (non-permanent) or -o (permanent), then with -s (present), -t (past) or -z (future). There is no infinitive or participle form of a verb.