What does "interlinguistics" mean?

The study of international communication, focused especially on planned international auxiliary languages and having e.g. Esperanto and Interlingua as a chief applied product.

Interlinguistics

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Noun

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The study of international communication, focused especially on planned international auxiliary languages and having e.g. Esperanto and Interlingua as a chief applied product. uncountable

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"Interlinguistics deals with communication across language barriers, and explores how planned languages like Esperanto and Volapük are used in these situations."

Etymology

From inter- + linguistics.

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international auxiliary language

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