Esperanto

Esperanto is a synthetic language created by a Russian Pole, Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof alias Doktor Esperanto (one who hopes), in the 1870s to aid in international communication and peace.

Esperanto is the easyest language to learn, since it was made to be an international second language. It's spelling is invariable, it's grammar is simple and it's vocabulary is closely adapted from Indo-European roots (with several more germanic roots). E.g., "lakto" is the subject noun for "milk", "lakton" is the object noun, etc. This makes it a natural choice for the NationStates game. Esperanto is an important language for Floydian nations, which is why many esperanto speaking nations are located in Pink Floyd

Esperanto was once the chief lingua franca in Athens and Midlands until 1982, when Greek was gradually adopted between 1967-1981. Meanwhile English was becoming popular since 1971. Greek became an official language alongside English in November 1989. Today, the people of Athens and Midlands are strongly critical of Esperanto, because it is poorly constructed. There was once plans to ban the speaking of Esperanto in public, but it was turned down in Parliament in April 2005.

See the full article for more real world details. There is also an entire Esperanto-language Wikipedia.

Esperanto in Tetris L-Shaped Block

Being that the language of the state was originaly russian, the way of writeing the latin alphabet is a little influenced. These differences have made the country's written Esperanto seem like more of a creole to outsiders. Before the government made it manditory for everyone to speak esperanto, they inacted a few other changes to make it more "simple" and more "equal". Some people outside of the country refer to this as "block Esperanto", but the Government of Tetris L-Shaped Block insists that it just be called Esperanto.

Example:

English: Hi, How are you?

Esperanto: Saluton, Kielas vin fartas?

"Block" Esperanto: ¿SДLЦTФП, KIЄLДS VIП FДЯTДS?

Differences

-"Block Esperanto" unlike Esperanto, does not assume the masculine gender as the default for family relationship words, and thus does not, for example, derive the word for "sister" by adding a feminine suffix to the word for "brother", as standard Esperanto does.

-"Block Esperanto" imposes consistent rules on the use of endings to transform a word from one meaning or part of speech to another, thus simplifying the amount of vocabulary memorization that is necessary.

-Esperanto requires the use of the -n ending to signify the use of the accusative case. "Block Esperanto" allows the use of this feature in ambiguous situations where the object of a sentence does not follow the subject, but in all other situations the accusative case was eliminated as redundant.

-"Block Esperanto" uses upsidedown Exclamation points (¡) and Question marks (¿) at the beggining of sentences requireing them (like spanish).

-"Block Esperanto" dose not use capitals

-"Block Esperanto" dose not use the latin alphabet,

the "Block Alphabet" is as follows: Д Ъ C Ĉ D Є F G Ĝ H Ĥ I J Ĵ K L M П Ф P Q Я S T Ц V Ш Ж Ч ζ (Ŭ has been phased out, but in most signs a Ц with the breve on it appears). The Ж has no sound, and an X dosen't appear in regular esperanto.

-Block Alphabet ues the silent Ж character (nonexistant in regular esperanto) for showing an abbreviation. The symbol appears before the acronym/abbreviation so that speakers know to pronounce the entire word, and it is easily distinguishable. For Example "Tetris L-Shaped Block" becomes, ЖTLSЪ short for TЄTЯIS L-SHДPЄD ЪlФCK

Palixian Esperanto

Palixian Esperanto varies from regular Esperanto much like Palixian varies from English, the main idea of the language is to flip the words around but still keep them in the same order, this is done because it is more easily prounouced then normal Esperanto, yet Regular Esperanto remains an official language also Examples:
English: Hi, How are you?
Regular Esperanto: Saluton, Kielas vin fartas?
Palixian Esperanto: Notulas, Saleik niv satraf?

Differences

Differences -"Palixian Esperanto" unlike Esperanto, does use the latin æ symbol

-"Palixian Esperanto" imposes consistent rules on the use of endings to transform a word from one meaning or part of speech to another, thus simplifying the amount of vocabulary memorization that is necessary.

-If a word is spelled with two letters that cannot normall be put next to each other the second letter is prounounced or a different prounouciation is used

the "Palixian Esperanto Alphabet" is as follows: a b c ĉ æ d e ê f g ĝ h ĥ i j ĵ k l m n o p r s ŝ t u ŭ v z (x has been added as an X is not used in regular Esperanto)