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Universalglot

Universalglot proper noun: an a posteriori international auxiliary language created in 1868 by Jean Pirro.

Proper noun

Universalglot (uncountable)

  1. An a posteriori international auxiliary language created in 1868 by Jean Pirro.
    • 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 Universalglot

Presumably from Latin ūniversālis (“universal”) + Ancient Greek γλῶττα (glôtta, “tongue”). By surface analysis, universal + -glot.

Questions about Universalglot

What does Universalglot mean?
Universalglot means an a posteriori international auxiliary language created in 1868 by Jean Pirro.
What part of speech is Universalglot?
Universalglot is a proper noun.

Words near Universalglot in the dictionary

  1. Universal Unitarians
  2. universal value
  3. universal values
  4. universal veil
  5. universal veils
  6. Universalglot
  7. Universalian
  8. Universalians
  9. universalisability
  10. universalisable
  11. universalisation

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