Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

universalglot

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: uni-ver-sal-glot
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

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

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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), which was the most successful auxlang until Esperanto supplanted it."

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: ūniversālis, γλῶττα

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does universalglot mean?: An a posteriori international auxiliary language created in 1868 by Jean Pirro.
Where does universalglot come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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