Editing Natural semantic metalanguage (section)

==Applications==
===Minimal English===
Minimal English is a derivative of the natural semantic metalanguage research, with the first major publication in 2018.<ref name="Minimal English">{{Cite book|title=Minimal English for a Global World|editor-last=Goddard|editor-first=Cliff|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2018}}</ref> It is a reduced form of English designed for non-specialists to use when requiring clarity of expression or easily translatable materials.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Goddard|first1=Cliff|last2=Wierzbicka|first2=Anna|title=Global English, Minimal English position papers|url=http://hrc.cass.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/hrc/u78/Global_English_Minimal_English%20position%20papers.pdf|website=Global English, Minimal English: Towards better intercultural communication|access-date=2 February 2018}}</ref> Minimal English uses an expanded set of vocabulary to the semantic primes. It includes the proposed universal and near-universal molecules, as well as non-universal words which can assist in clarity.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Goddard|first1=Cliff|title=Minimal English|url=https://www.griffith.edu.au/humanities-languages/school-humanities-languages-social-science/research/natural-semantic-metalanguage-homepage/minimal-english|website=NSM Homepage|access-date=2 February 2018}}</ref>  As such, it already has counterparts targeted at speakers of other natural languages, e.g. '''Minimal French''',<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Peeters |first1=Bert |title=Du bon usage des stéréotypes en cours de FLE: le cas de l'ethnolinguistique appliquée [Making good use of stereotypes in the French foreign language classroom: the case of applied ethnolinguistics] |journal=Dire |date=2017 |volume=9 |pages=43–60 |url=http://epublications.unilim.fr/revues/dire/816 |language=fr}}</ref> '''Minimal Polish''',<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wierzbicka |first1=Anna |title=W co wierzą chrześcijanie? Opowieść o Bogu i o ludziach [What Christians believe: The story of God and people] |date=2017 |publisher=Znak |location=[[Kraków]]|language=pl}}</ref> '''65 Sanaa''' (''Minimal Finnish'')<ref name="Minimal English" />{{rp|225–258}} and so on. Minimal English differs from other simple Englishes (such as [[Basic English]]) as it has been specifically designed for maximal cross-translatability.

===Language engineering===
Applications of NSM have also been proposed for [[natural language processing|natural-language processing]], [[natural-language understanding]] and [[artificial intelligence]].<ref>''Semantic Decomposition and Marker Passing in an Artificial Representation of Meaning'', Doctoral Thesis of Johannes Fähndrich at the Technischen Universität Berlin 2018 https://d-nb.info/1162540680/34</ref>

===Revivalistics===
[[Ghil'ad Zuckermann]] suggests that NSM can be of benefit in [[Revivalistics: From the Genesis of Israeli to Language Reclamation in Australia and Beyond|revivalistics]] ([[language revitalization]]) as it "can neutralize the Western semantic bias involved in reconnecting with ancient Aboriginal traditions using English, and may allow a fuller understanding of the original meaning of the Aboriginal lexical items."<ref name=Revivalistics>{{cite book|author=Zuckermann, Ghil'ad|author-link=Ghil'ad Zuckermann|title=[[Revivalistics: From the Genesis of Israeli to Language Reclamation in Australia and Beyond]]|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|year=2020|isbn=9780199812790}} {{ISBN|9780199812776}}</ref>{{rp|217}}