Novial language

Novial is a constructed language devised by Otto Jespersen, a Danish linguist who had previously been involved in the Ido movement. He devised Novial to be an international auxiliary language, which would facilitate international communication and friendship, without displacing anyone's native language.

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Constructed language - Otto Jespersen - Danish - Linguist - Ido - International auxiliary language - Native language

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It features a vocabulary based largely on the Germanic and Romance languages, and a grammar heavily influenced by English.

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Germanic - Romance languages - English

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The first introduction of Novial was in Jespersen's book An International Language in 1928, with an update in his dictionary, Novial Lexike, published two years later. Further modifications were proposed in the 1930s, but with Jespersen's death in 1943, it became dormant, although in the 1990s, with the revival of interest in artificial language brought on by the Internet, many people rediscovered Novial.

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1928 - 1930s - 1943 - 1990s - Internet

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