interlinguistics
nounEtymology From inter- + linguistics.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences The study of international communication, focused especially on planned international auxiliary languages and having e.g. Esperanto and Interlingua as a chief applied product.
- In linguistics, such a language, which does not directly stem from forgotten prehistory or is not the result of the evolution of one language into another over generations, but goes back to a conscious act of language planning, is called a planned language[…]. Outside interlinguistics, the field of their study, such systems are also referred to as “artificial languages”, “constructed languages”, “international auxiliary languages (IALs)”, “universal languages”, or “conlangs”.2022, Sabine Fiedler, Cyril Robert Brosch, “What is Esperanto?” (chapter 1), in Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 3:
- Related terms
- Esperanto, Interlingua