Tuesday, October 2, 2007

dabanese, 0

Dabanese is a written language, which can be read as you please. Chinese is like this too. It uses ideograms, meant in a very general sense, including all kind of common symbols, in particular mathematical symbols.

I was developing an early version of dabanese in 1985. Then a more mature version in year 2000. The present version has started not much after that.

Dabanese has a very simple syntax rather than grammar. I have recognized that the grammatical notions like nouns, verbs, adjectives, ... are not necessary, that one kind of ideograms is enough. They, and the subphrases, differ in a phrase due to the emphasis and position.

The name dabanese means the language of daba (like Chinese and Japanes are the languages of China and Japan respectively). The name daba stands for the universal data base, which is another story. Roughly speaking, dabanese is to daba what C is to unix.

Remark Until I develop software (graphics, parsers, ...), I'll use mainly the English and Polish nouns in place of ideograms in order to illustrate dabanese phrases.

We will see that dabanese phrases can be iterated, hence an entire chapter or even a monograph can be written as just one phrase. Certain devices and/or software will assist reading dabanese texts.

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