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auxiliary language

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noun

  1. a language, as Esperanto, Swahili, or English, used for intercommunication by speakers of various other languages.


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

Said he: "The use of such an auxiliary language would of course be greatly increased by its progressive diffusion."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

But if one Braille edition is prepared for the blind of the world in the universal auxiliary language, a far greater range of literature is at once brought within their grasp.

From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Clark, Walter John

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