Kotava (sometimes also spelled Kodava) is an international auxiliary language (IAL) created by Staren Fetcey in 1978 that focuses on the principle of cultural neutrality.

The name means "the language of one and all", and the Kotava community has adopted the slogan "a project humanistic and universal, utopian and realistic".

The consonants (in IPA form) are: The vowels are pronounced as in Spanish, Swahili, or Tahitian, with no differences of length and no nasalization.

One unusual feature of Kotava is the "euphonic" principle, which matches endings of adjectives and other modifiers with their nouns.

Verbs are conjugated into three tenses (present, past, and future) and four moods (realis, imperative, conditional, and relative).

In addition, there are mechanisms for voices, aspects, modalities and other nuances, which permit a great deal of subtlety in expression.

), tales (La Fontaine, Charles Perrault, Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, legends of the world[12]) and other literary texts (Machiavelli, etc.).

In Les Tétraèdres ("The Tetrahedra", a novel in French by Yurani Andergan, Verintuva, ISBN 978-2-9536310-0-5, 1274 p.), a wide historical and fantastic fresco, Kotava is the spoken language that Neanderthals transmitted in secret to their descendants for many generations and is recited by some heroines as long oracles.

The Lord's Prayer: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Kot ayik sokoblir nuyaf is miltaf gu bagaliuca is rokeem.