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Communicationssprache

Communicationssprache proper noun: an international auxiliary language created by Joseph Schipfer in 1836, chiefly based on French, with some influences from Latin, English and German.

Proper noun

Communicationssprache (uncountable)

  1. An international auxiliary language created by Joseph Schipfer in 1836, chiefly based on French, with some influences from Latin, English and German.
    • There are both synthetic and analytic comparatives in Schipfer’s Communicationssprache, but they are not in free variation: according to Couturat and Leau (1903, 242) consonant-final adjectival stems take -ior, while the word mor precedes vowel-final adjectives.2010, Alan Reed Libert, “Comparing Comparatives in Artificial Languages”, in Interlingvistikaj Kajeroj, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2026, page 70
    • Other auxlangs of this period include Joseph Schipfer’s Communicationssprache (1839), a simplified version of French; Jean Pirro’s Universalglot (1868), one of the first fully developed auxlangs to integrate linguistic features from multiple languages; and Johann Martin Schleyer’s Volapük (1880)...2026 June 28 (last accessed), Nathan Sanders, “A primer on constructed languages”, in University of Toronto, archived from the original on 01 Nov 2025, page 7

Origin of Communicationssprache

From French communications + German Sprache (“language”).

Questions about Communicationssprache

What does Communicationssprache mean?
Communicationssprache means an international auxiliary language created by Joseph Schipfer in 1836, chiefly based on French, with some influences from Latin, English and German.
What part of speech is Communicationssprache?
Communicationssprache is a proper noun.

Words near Communicationssprache in the dictionary

  1. communications intelligence
  2. communications satellite
  3. communications satellites
  4. communications zone
  5. communications zones
  6. Communicationssprache
  7. communicative
  8. communicative competence
  9. communicative competences
  10. communicatively
  11. communicativeness

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