Universalglot

Universalglot is an a posteriori <a href="/facts/International_auxiliary_language/zuBmGwtx">international auxiliary language</a> published by the French linguist <a href="/facts/Jean_Pirro/l9Evrm0m">Jean Pirro</a> in 1868 in Tentative d'une langue universelle, Enseignement, grammaire, vocabulaire. Preceding <a href="/facts/Volap%C3%BCk/AMAbmAUM">Volapük</a> by a decade and <a href="/facts/Esperanto/5cWPoLuM">Esperanto</a> by nearly 20 years, Universalglot has been called the first "complete auxiliary-language system based on the common elements in national languages". Pirro gave it more than 7,000 basic words and numerous prefixes, enabling the development of a very extensible vocabulary.

In his book describing his own language project <a href="/facts/Novial/KTKyWhkj">Novial</a>, <a href="/facts/Otto_Jespersen/EjGNp8SJ">Otto Jespersen</a> praised the language, writing that it is "one to which I constantly recur with the greatest admiration, because it embodies principles which were not recognized till much later". The magazine Cosmoglotta for the auxiliary language <a href="/facts/Interlingue/vWFeeTz7">Interlingue</a> (then known as Occidental) also praised the language in 1931 for its readability and analysis of international words (in particular the suffix -ion) and regretted that its creator had been forgotten in contrast with the creators of Esperanto and Volapük:Monuments have been erected to the glory of Zamenhof and the name Schleyer has been engraved in marble. Their precursor and master, Pirro, has been honored - with oblivion.

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