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auxiliary language
noun
- a language, as Esperanto, Swahili, or English, used for intercommunication by speakers of various other languages.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of auxiliary language1
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Example Sentences
A simple, common, international auxiliary language — “confidently predicted” in 1921 to become “a part of every educated person’s equipment” — remains unestablished today.
A twofold advantage will have been attained by the introduction of a universal auxiliary language .
It would be the same with the official recognition by a group of powerful nations of an auxiliary language.
It sins against the cardinal principle that an auxiliary language shall inflict no damage upon any natural one.
The universal ability to use an auxiliary language on occasion rounds off and completes the levelling process.
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