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- noun linguistics The study of international communication, focused especially on planned
international auxiliary languages and havingInterlingua as its chief applied product.
Etymologies
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inter- + linguistics
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It probably won't happen anytime soon, since interlinguistics (esp. esperantology) is a kind of young field and most people qualified to carry out the research (who know both linguistics and esperanto) tend to also be either open advocates for or open critics against Esperanto.
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I was interested in the subject of interlinguistics in general, and this was the only book on the subject I could find in the library.
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