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THE student of this recurrent and ever-present problem will welcome this extremely handy analysis of all hitherto attempted universal languages, contributed by Miss Pankhurst to the “To-day and To-morrow” series of opuscula. Both the purely ‘invented’ languages and those based upon existing languages are dispassionately discussed and explained, and the natural conclusion arrived at is a return to that form of the original universal language-Latin-which has been standardised by Sig. G. Peano under the name ‘Interlingua’ and already possesses a wellestablished academy. The examples given speak eloquently for themselves, for ‘Interlingua’ does not require to be ‘learnt’ by any ordinarily educated person. Any one with a superficial knowledge of elementary Latin can produce his own ‘Interlingua,’ and use it in case of need.
Delphos: the Future of International Language.
(To-day and To-morrow Series.) By E. Sylvia Pankhurst. Pp. 95. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd.; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., n.d.) 2s. 6d. net.
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A., E. Delphos: the Future of International Language . Nature 119, 889 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119889c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/119889c0