Cosmoglottics
Encyclopedia
Cosmoglottics is a science that investigates world languages (or, universal language
s); more specifically about universal artificial languages, its study and construction.
Sergey N. Kuznetsov makes an opposition between cosmoglottics, the science about universal planned language, and interlinguistics
, the science about international languages and communication, founded by Otto Jespersen
in 1931.
Universal language
Universal language may refer to a hypothetical or historical language spoken and understood by all or most of the world's population. In some circles, it is a language said to be understood by all living things, beings, and objects alike. It may be the ideal of an international auxiliary language...
s); more specifically about universal artificial languages, its study and construction.
Sergey N. Kuznetsov makes an opposition between cosmoglottics, the science about universal planned language, and interlinguistics
Interlinguistics
Interlinguistics is the study of various aspects of linguistic communication between people who cannot make themselves understood by means of their different first languages...
, the science about international languages and communication, founded by Otto Jespersen
Otto Jespersen
Jens Otto Harry Jespersen or Otto Jespersen was a Danish linguist who specialized in the grammar of the English language.He was born in Randers in northern Jutland and attended Copenhagen University, earning degrees in English, French, and Latin...
in 1931.
External links
- Interlingvistiko en "kosma dimensio": vojagxo inter kosmoglotiko kaj kosmolingvistiko by Sergey N. Kuznetsov (in EsperantoEsperantois the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto , the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, in 1887...
)