auxiliary language

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Noun

auxiliary language (plural auxiliary languages)

1. A broad term, for any language (whether constructed or natural), such as Volapük, Esperanto, Swahili, French, Russian or English, used or intended to be used (locally, regionally, nationally or internationally) for intercommunication by speakers of various other languages.
2. (short for) An international auxiliary language.
3. A local minority language which has official recognition.
4. A liturgical language, such as Latin, Sanskrit, or Old Church Slavonic, used in religious services.

Derived terms

• international auxiliary language (IAL)

Abbreviations

• auxlang

Translations

auxiliary language

• Aragonese: luenga auxiliar (an) f
• Catalan: llengua auxiliar (ca) f
• Danish: hjælpesprog (da) n
• Esperanto: helplingvo (eo)
• Finnish: apukieli (fi)
• French: langue auxiliaire (fr) f
• Galician: lingua auxiliar (gl) f, auxilingua (gl) f
• German: Hilfssprache (de) f
• Ido: helpolinguo (io)

• Interlingua: lingua auxiliar (ia)
• Italian: lingua ausiliaria (it) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hjelpespråk (no) n

  Nynorsk: hjelpespråk (nn) n

• Russian: вспомогательный язык (ru) (vspomogátel’nyj jazýk) m
• Spanish: lengua auxiliar (es) f, auxilengua (es) f
• Swedish: hjälpspråk (sv) n
• Volapük: yufapük (vo)

See also

• constructed language