Communicationssprache

Communicationssprache
Created by Joseph Schipfer
Date created 1839
Setting and usage International auxiliary language
Users Unknown, probably none  (date missing)
Category (purpose)
Category (sources) Most of the vocabulary and grammar from French, with some influences from Latin, English and German
Language codes
ISO 639-3 –

Communicationssprache, also known as Universal Glot, Weltsprache and Komuniklingvo, is one of the earliest international auxiliary languages.

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Overview

It was created by Joseph Schipfer and first published in 1839 in Wiesbaden.

This project is of historical interest for two reasons - first, it being based on French reflects the common view of the time that French is "a world language to some extent". It is also interesting to note that mere forty years later, in 1879, Volapük took English for basis.

Second, Schipfer's project reflects a new conscience of greater possibilities of the international communication which appeared by the invention of the railway and steam ship. He even recommended that his project be used on these "new means of voyage".

Grammar

Communicationssprache is based on (or a simplification of) French, making heavy use of its respelled vocabulary, which Schipfer considered to be nearly universal among the educated classes of the world of his time.

Some of its characteristics are:

Examples

Pater Noster:

No Pera, wia ete Cielu
ta Noma sanctiferii;
ta Royoma Ais arrivii;
ta volonta färerii
com Cielu änsi Terru.
Donne Ais noa Päno quotidien;
pardonne Ais noa offansos,
com pardonnas Aos offanding;
non permette que succombias tantationi;
mä delivre Aos malu.

Numbers from one to ten:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
una dua tria quatra quina sesta setta otta nona dia

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