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Communicationssprache
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Etymology
From en fr communication communications + en de Sprache language.
Proper noun
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An international auxiliary language created by Joseph Schipfer in 1836, chiefly based on French, with some influences from Latin, English and German.
en Alan Reed Libert Comparing Comparatives in Artificial Languages https://air.unimi.it/retrieve/dfa8b98f-153b-748b-e053-3a05fe0a3a96/A.%20Libert%20-%20Comparing%20Comparatives%20in%20Artificial%20Languages.pdf 2010 70 Interlingvistikaj Kajeroj There are both synthetic and analytic comparatives in Schipfer’s Communicationssprache, but they are not in free variation: according to Couturat and Leau (1903, 242) consonant-final adjectival stems take -ior, while the word mor precedes vowel-final adjectives. https://web.archive.org/web/20260629055807/https://air.unimi.it/retrieve/dfa8b98f-153b-748b-e053-3a05fe0a3a96/A.%20Libert%20-%20Comparing%20Comparatives%20in%20Artificial%20Languages.pdf
en Nathan Sanders A primer on constructed languages https://sanders.phonologist.org/Papers/sanders-conlang-primer.pdf 2026-06-28 7 w:University of Toronto 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20251101153613/https://sanders.phonologist.org/Papers/sanders-conlang-primer.pdf
See also
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Appendix:Communicationssprache
en hybridisms
en Artificial languages