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Indo-European using it has been influenced over the centuries by its Persian, Turkish and Arab neighbors, as well as various countries from the east. At times, it feels a bit like Bulgarian, at other times like Persian, and sometimes similar to German as well”.

Look an extract from the book Dracula, by Bram Stoker:

In Sambahsa In English

Trans ia glend kowka clins ios Mittel Land ludeer staur ghirikleitus tiel ia bergwntias iom-pet Karpats. Dexter ed levter quem wey, ubselleer, samt id posmiddien sol pehdend alnos ep ia ed leurnd vasya klewost colors tos bell gabehrg – maurblou ed purpwr in ia skadhs iom pics, glend ed brun quer gras ed rock se blans; dind eet un aunfin prospect om srakut ghianshiek ed ghehrsend crags hina taswo viswohndeer dalgi, quer ia varfs oistieu grandiose-ye. Her ed ter kwecto eent jabbara rifts in ia ghyors, per-ya, kun id sol bieurohp, wey endervis id kweitos uns wedfall. Oin em mien sokwis touchit mien brakh kun wey gir pod un clin ed menxu prohp un bergwnt varf, kwohk-yod, kun wey wohgh ub noster serpentin via, face nos.

– Spehcte: Isten Szek (id thron os Div)!

Ed is kwohr id stavros samt yazgos.

Beyond the green swelling hills of the Mittel Land rose mighty slopes of forest up to the lofty steeps of the Carpathians themselves. Right and left of us they towered, with the afternoon sun falling full upon them and bringing out all the glorious colours of this beautiful range, deep blue and purple in the shadows of the peaks, green and brown where grass and rock mingled, and an endless perspective of jagged rock and pointed crags, till these were themselves lost in the distance, where the snowy peaks rose grandly. Here and there seemed mighty rifts in the mountains, through which, as the sun began to sink, we saw now and again the white gleam of falling water. One of my companions touched my arm as we swept round the base of a hill and opened up the lofty, snow-covered peak of a mountain, which seemed, as we wound on our serpentine way, to be right before us.

‘Look! Isten szek!’—‘God’s seat!’— and he crossed himself reverently.

Sambahsa has a flag to represent it.

The brown color represents the ground since many Indo-European

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