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About: Alman is a simplified dialect of German designed to reduce the complexity of the language while maintaining mutual intelligibility with Standard German. It systematically eliminates several complex grammatical features: • Gender System: Uses a single article form for most contexts • Case Markings: Removes most case-based inflections • Noun Declensions: Simplifies noun endings across cases • Job Titles: Eliminates gender-specific forms in occupational titles The English home page opens with a deadpan Mark Twain riff: In 1880, an American author filed a detailed complaint about the German language, together with a proposal for its reform. He had studied it for nine weeks, under great difficulty and annoyance; three of his teachers died in the meantime. The file has remained open since. Just keep scrolling; it’s presented with all the interactive frills Youth Today are accustomed to, and I find it impressive and mildly amusing. I can’t quite believe someone went to all the trouble…

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