Basic English

BASIC English
BASIC English
Created by	Charles Kay Ogden
Date	1925
Setting and usage	controlled natural language
Purpose	constructed language BASIC English;
Writing system	Latin
Sources	Modern English
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
IETF	en-basiceng

BASIC English (British Academic Scientific International Commercial)^[1] is a controlled language used to explain complex thoughts. It has 850 words chosen by Charles Kay Ogden. Some articles in the Simple English Wikipedia use only BASIC English.

In 1937, Ogden hired Otto Neurath and Marie Neurath to make International Picture Language as one of eight books in BASIC English.^[2]

↑ Ogden, Charles Kay (1932). Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar. K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, Limited. p. 21.
↑ Ogden, Charles. "BASIC Texts". Archived from the original on 2005-03-09. Retrieved 2019-03-05.