Skip to content
Category

Interlinguistics

page 1
constructed language
human language whose phonology, grammar, and vocabulary have been consciously devised for human or human-like communication
lingua franca
language used to facilitate communication between groups without a common native language
pidgin
A pidgin , or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified form of contact language that develops between two or more groups of people that do not have a language in common: typically, its vocabulary and grammar are limited and often drawn from several languages. It is most commonly employed in situations such as trade, or where both groups speak languages different from the language of the country in which they reside (but where there is no common language between the groups).
international auxiliary language
language meant for communication between people from different nations who do not share a common first language
language planning
deliberate effort to influence the function, structure, or acquisition of languages or language variety within a speech community
intercultural communication
discipline that studies communication across different cultures and social groups, or how culture affects communication
interlinguistics
Interlinguistics, also known as cosmoglottics, is the science of planned languages that has existed for more than a century. Formalised by Otto Jespersen in 1931 as the science of interlanguages, in more recent times, the field has been more focused with language planning, the collection of strategies to deliberately influence the structure and function of a living language. In this framework, interlanguages become a subset of planned languages, i.e. extreme cases of language planning.
Plains Indian Sign Language
once the lingua franca across North America
Ilona Koutny
Esperantist and linguist
esperantology
Esperantology, or Esperantic studies, is a special Esperanto linguistics whose subjects are word construction, word assembly, word introduction and transcription of umbrella terms and proper names. Esperantology principles of word construction are exemplary of the principles of necessity and sufficiency which postulate a balance between conciseness and clarity of the word. Regarding word roots, esperantology sets these principles:
pasigraphy
thumb|Basic Blissymbols. thumb|The Lord's Prayer in [[John Wilkins's Real Character.]] A pasigraphy (from Greek πᾶσι pasi "to all" and γράφω grapho "to write") is a writing system where each written symbol represents a concept (rather than or not just a word or sound or series of sounds in a spoken language).
Sona
constructed language
philosophical language
constructed language that is constructed from first principles
engineered language
constructed languages devised to test or prove how languages work
Esperantic Studies Foundation
foundation which strives to solve international language problems
universal language
hypothetical language that is supposed to have been spoken by all or most of the world's population
Intercomprehension
Intercomprehension is when people try to communicate with each other using their own different languages. Intercomprehension can be explained as a dialogue between people from two different languages. Each one expresses in their own language, making efforts to understand each other.
Ebbe Vilborg
Swedish philologist
English as a lingua franca
use of the English language for international communication
pan-Slavic language
type of constructed language
global language system
hypothesis
naturalistic planned language
type of planned language
pan-Germanic language
zonal constructed language designed for communication amongst speakers of Germanic languages
pan-Romance language
constructed language representing Romance languages