auxiliary language
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of auxiliary language
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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Zamenhof in the hopes of bringing a common auxiliary language to the world.
From Salon • Aug. 6, 2022
The motivation to learn an auxiliary language isn’t so different from why people pick up French or Italian, she said.
From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2011
Instead he hit upon the idea of making a simplified form of English, thinks it has a good chance of becoming the international auxiliary language of the future.
From Time Magazine Archive
A chapter on the evolution of the alphabet opens the book; a section on the need for an international auxiliary language closes it.
From Time Magazine Archive
The whole thing was a good illustration of a fact that is already becoming prominent in the history of the auxiliary language movement—the scientists are much more favourable than the literary men.
From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Clark, Walter John
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