What is Lingua Franca Nova?
{{Infobox language | name = Lingua Franca Nova | altname = Elefen | nativename = | acceptance = |image = Flag of Lingua Franca Nova.svg |imagesize = 140px | imagealt = | imagecaption = | pronunciation = | states = <!-- or state --> | region = | creator = [[C. George Boeree]] | created = 1965<ref name=beginning>{{cite web |url=https://elefen.org/vici/linguistica/la_evolui_de_elefen |title=La evolui de elefen |language=lfn |first=C. George |last=Boeree |access-date=2020-11-09 |website=Vici de Elefen}}</ref> | setting = [[International auxiliary language]] | ethnicity = | extinct = | era = | speakers = | date = | dateprefix = | ref = <!-- up to e21 (or current edition) if ref is ''Ethnologue'' --> | refname = | speakers2 = | revived = | revived-category = <!-- or revived-cat --> | familycolor = | family = | fam1 = | fam2 = | fam3 = <!-- up to fam15 --> | protoname = | ancestor = | ancestor2 = <!-- up to ancestor8 --> | standards = | stand1 = | stand2 = <!-- up to stand6 --> | dialects = | listclass = | dia1 = | dia2 = <!-- up to dia20 --> | script = [[Latin script]] | iso3 = lfn | iso3comment = | lc1 = | ld1 = | lc2 = <!-- up to lc30 --> | ld2 = <!-- up to ld30 --> | iso6 = }} '''Lingua Franca Nova''' (also '''Elefen''') is an auxiliary language originally built by [[C. George Boeree]] of Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania, and developed by many of its users. Its vocabulary is based on the [[Romance languages]]: French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan. == History == Boeree started to create Lingua Franca Nova in 1965,<ref name=beginning /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://elefen.org/v