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# An EL Greeting Card is in the EL Homepage. Please feel free to use it. Last year's EL Haiga Greeting Card seemed to be chosen for the Haiga Contest in the magazine, "World Haiku Association 2009."
# It has been more than twenty years since the EL concept was born. EL couldn't come here if only by my lone hand. Thanks everyone having helped something for EL.
# Privately using EL is fun, but when being used among a mass people, EL could work showing its real ability in many directions. So I submitted EL to a Google project 10 to the 100 in the end of October 2008. Here you may see what EL wants to work for in the project. Please boost EL!
# Warning: the earthlanguage domain-name is used for advertising mails including weekly newsletters; but I've never sent such things. Please be careful.
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The New EL Font and the ASCII-note:
The Font EARTH 3 and about the EL ASCIIYou can use EL compounded characters
in an email; have fun with them.
The Earth 3 has been renewed on Sep. 1st 2007* If you have gotten the EL easy dictionary doc-file, please keep the former font and the overlay typing tool too. You can't read the file with the new font.
Various Samples of EL Usages
New
Monthly Poem and Pictograph (Jan. 2009):
Haiku "icy rain" by Fay Aoyagi (US/Japan)
Back Issues of Monthly Poem and Pictograph
Enjoy various feelings from many cultures in the globe. This section introduces a short poem/haiku/story in English, Japanese and EL with an EL pictograph, Since February 1999)
Meditation Exercise with EL Body-signs
By a combination of the power of symbols and Qi/Chi-Gong theory. this exercise would work for harmonizing your body and mind, becoming a part of nature, moving the whole body.
This is easy to learn, and very effective. You need not study language for this, but probably you would naturally memorize and enjoy some of EL symbols too, through your body and heart.
Contents
Introduction, The Ocean, Tree, The Sun, Rain
(started: October 18, 2007)
Wind, Earth, Cloud, Happy and Gratitude
(added: November 15, 2007)
The Moon (January 27, 2008)Guess what through those Illustrations :
Play here with children!
EL fundamental characters are like simplified pictures. (uploaded on 06, 01,'99)
Archives of Mini Topics in EL
and English with photos:
Please enjoy the back number issues to see what EL writings are like.
EL translation of the Babel story
from the Holy Bible (Nov.2005)
The History of EL since 1988
The Links Relating to EL
Thanks for the cooperation!
(The people, who have helped EL)The Bibliography
The books from which the author learned or
used for building the EL system are mostly in Japanese.
About the EL Founder and
the editor of this site:Yoshiko McFarland and the Background of EL
(Living in San Francisco, CA, USA)
Yoshiko's Batik Works (1975-86):
There are some images of the ancient Japan. Searching the world connected to bring her inspiration of Earth Language later.
You'll see some of her commissioned works too.
Peace Butterflies Project
: butterfly
Using this kind of picture-like EL symbols,
wouldn't you like to enjoy your creation?
Here are some samples used old memorial fabrics.
Donations are welcome;
You can get a peace butterfly or butterflies by your donation or voluntary cooperation.
About Earth Language (EL)
The Total Vision in Brief
(Original: 1997, a very short form, revised: 07,07. '05)
The General Introduction of the EL System
For overview, start from here.
What is Earth Language?
The principles to develop EL (11,30, 2003)
Here explains why only English shouldn't be
the common universal language.
The comparison between the primitive world, the common English world and the world with EL
Old Version of 'What is EL?','The aims and works'
(published on '92, April 27,'01 revised)Evolved Language
About the concept of the new global communication methodNew What you can do now with EL
EL has many approaches to start. Even if you knew about EL just today, you can use and enjoy EL a little right now. Please choose what you'd like to do from here. (October, 2008)
New A way to spread EL (November, 2008)
(related to the Google project 10 to the 100)
Footnote about history of various
human communication ways
How does the EL System work?
(Most pages in this section are revised on June 2005)
Many general vocabularies
are created by combining
the meanings of two or
more basic symbols.
Why EL is based on visual symbols
The total of the EL bases
The way to increase symbols out of only 70bases
The EL ideograms
It's easy and fun to learn, using your own mother language
The EL grammar and the method for organizing information
You can record and send messages, in the free sequence; also there are rational ways for abbreviation and organizing information.
The EL phonetics
You can write any human-mouth-made sounds by this way. (Renewed: May 2005)
The EL multi-method system
Using the same memory, you can communicate with others by hand-signs, gestures, eye ball signs and vocally as well.
Examples for EL communications
with signs and characters
(explanation in English and Japanese)
The EL Main Dictionary
Play with Symbols, and come join us to create more.
Newer
# Illustrated Dictionary:
Please have fun learning EL like riddles. Most main words in EL are expressed with a single symbol. Enjoy using some of them in your daily life.
Preface note for naming things and Classification of living things
(since June 29,2007)
Human Body Features
(since March 6th, 2007)
Primates
(since June 10th, 2007)
Mammals
(since June 29, 2007 and it's going to grow more).
Insects
(since July 11, 2007)
Printable text sheets to learn EL
(start: Feb. 1st, last update: March 6th, 2007)
Here you can download the following text sheets:
[160 Traveler's Conversations] in EL, English, Japanese, German and Esperanto; also partly in Itarian and Noxiro.
[Dictionaries about body features and the concepts related to them]Also you can download the EL introduction leaflet from here. Have fun sharing EL with your friends.
HAnaPAnaDO (Thank you)
You are welcome for linking this page and using EL.
But please let the author know about what you've done/thought or your plan related to EL, for more improving EL.
Library of Congress TX 3 214 905 © Yoshiko McFarland (Dec.1991) for the name and the concept of Earth Language when that first publication in a magazine
EL Web Site: Copyright (C)Yoshiko F. McFarland All Rights Reserved (The animation of this page was made by Tomo)