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This chapter is a comprehensive list of what Robert Dixon believes to be the most important features of an ideal language.

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Listen to this for a walkthrough of the chapter "An Ideal Language"

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Intonation is not a grammatical distinction

No homonyms

No words with similar pronunciation but different meanings

Keep irregularities to a minimum

Orthography with simple correspondence between phonemes and letters

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Five Vowels

Three-term system of nominal demonstratives

No homonyms (again)

Personal pronouns

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No double duty words

Abundance of abstract nouns

Lots and lots of names

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Sounds like Esperanto!