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interlinguistics

interlinguistics noun: the study of international communication, focused especially on planned international auxiliary languages and having e.g. Esperanto and Interlingua as a chief applied product.

Noun

interlinguistics (uncountable)

  1. The study of international communication, focused especially on planned international auxiliary languages and having e.g. Esperanto and Interlingua as a chief applied product.
    • In linguistics, such a language, which does not directly stem from forgotten prehistory or is not the result of the evolution of one language into another over generations, but goes back to a conscious act of language planning, is called a planned language[…]. Outside interlinguistics, the field of...2022, Sabine Fiedler, Cyril Robert Brosch, “What is Esperanto?” (chapter 1), in Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 3

Origin of interlinguistics

From inter- + linguistics.

Questions about interlinguistics

What does interlinguistics mean?
Interlinguistics means the study of international communication, focused especially on planned international auxiliary languages and having e.g. Esperanto and Interlingua as a chief applied product.
What part of speech is interlinguistics?
Interlinguistics is a noun.

Words near interlinguistics in the dictionary

  1. interlinguas
  2. Interlingue
  3. interlinguist
  4. interlinguistic
  5. interlinguistically
  6. interlinguistics
  7. interlinguists
  8. interlining
  9. interlinings
  10. interlink
  11. interlinkability

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