Anglatin is the primary language spoken by the American IPS and the official language of its business, law, and public life. In the linguistic order of the First Trilogy Era, it is one of four great languages that have emerged through a process of dedialectization — the long, centuries-old trend in which the enormous diversity of regional dialects and national tongues has gradually consolidated toward shared synthetic standards. The New School gave this trend its formal shape, codifying Anglatin (and its sister languages Cyrillic and Asiatic) in the early SY 100s.
The language is a unified synthesis of English, Romance, and revivalist Latin, with elements drawn from Dutch, German, Gaelic, Scandinavian, and Dravidian language families. Its core vocabulary of approximately 1,000 words is designed to allow any speaker to be understood internationally while still permitting local dialect variation at the margins. The 1,000-word core is the floor; the living language built on top of it is something else entirely.
Across the Consortium, learning at least one of the three unity languages — Anglatin, Cyrillic, or Asiatic — in addition to one's local dialect is compulsory for all citizens. Anglatin functions not only as the American IPS's native tongue but as the most widely distributed of the three in Consortium-adjacent trade contexts, owing to the historical dominance of English as a pre-Consortium international language.
Anglatin Alphabet · New School Standardization
26 Base Letters · 5 Extended Characters
Extended characters (highlighted) carry phonemic distinctions absent from standard Latin. They enter Anglatin primarily through Germanic, Romance, and Scandinavian inheritance streams.
die
the
definite article · Germanic via English/Dutch
de
of
preposition · Latin/Romance inheritance
esa
is
copula · Latin esse, Romance synthesis
ja
yes
affirmative · Germanic (Scandinavian/German)
no
no
negation · Latin/Romance, retained unchanged
a-
negation prefix
privative · Greek/Latin; attaches to roots
avec
with
preposition · French, from Latin apud hoc
para
for
preposition · Latin/Romance (Spanish para)
liber
book
noun · Latin liber (bark/book); unchanged
Terra
Earth
proper noun · Latin; New School preferred term over "Earth"
Anglatin does not exist in isolation. It is one of four great language systems active in Sol System during the First Trilogy Era — three constructed unity tongues formalized by the New School, and one organic trade language that predates them all.
Unified synthesis of English, Romance, and revivalist Latin with Germanic, Gaelic, Scandinavian, and Dravidian elements. Official language of the American IPS. Latin script + 5 extended
Blend of Russian, Ukrainian, Greek, and various Eastern European languages. Official language of the Soviet IPS. Cyrillic script
Asiatic
People's Republic IPS
Blend of simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Malay, and Sino-Pacific elements. Official language of the People's Republic IPS. Hangul script
The free and ever-evolving mixture of all three IPS super-languages. Arose naturally — predates the SY 1 codification of any of the three Consortium standards. Basic Solari is a ~1,000-word shorthand allowing spacers to communicate regardless of world of origin. No fixed script
New School · Origin SY 37, New Athens · On Language
Codification as Cultural Policy
The New School did not invent Anglatin. Dedialectization — the centuries-old convergence of regional dialects toward shared standards — was already well underway before the New School was founded at a symposium in New Athens in SY 37. What the New School did was give the trend formal shape, institutional authority, and a name. Its school of linguistics coined the terms "Anglatin," "Cyrillic," and "Asiatic" and produced the codified standards that made each language teachable, testable, and compulsory across Consortium citizens.
The key figure in this process for Anglatin specifically was Silvinus Herminus Januarius, whose work on the revival of Latin as an everyday-use language — not merely an academic one — gave Anglatin its distinctive backbone. Latin had been functionally dead for more than two thousand years before the Second Renaissance restored it to common parlance. Januarius treated that restoration as a foundation, not an ornament.
The New School's language policy also has a deliberate political dimension. It actively suppresses what it calls "Old Earth" terminology, replacing it with Consortium-preferred alternatives. The most visible example is the systematic use of Terra in place of Earth across official Consortium communication. The vocabulary entry for Terra carries this designation explicitly.
Constructed Sample · Archive Reference · Not Canonical Prose
Die liber de Terra esa avec nos.
"The book of Earth is with us." — Demonstrating article (die), genitive (de), copula (esa), and preposition (avec) in basic construction. Note: canonical Anglatin usage would prefer Terra over Earth per New School standard.