£15.25
Title: Interglossa-A Draft of an Auxiliary for a Democratic World Order
Author: Lancelot Hogben
Publisher: Pelican (Penguin Books)
Publication Date: 1943 First Edition
Format: Paperback
Condition: Blue and white covers which have some scuffing to the spine which has been taped. The pages are clean and quite tanned due to age. Diagrams and illustration throughout the book.
Book measures 18cm x 11.cm with 285 pages
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Lancelot Hogben was a biologist who wrote Mathematics for the Million, one of the most popular mathematics books of all time. As well as many important contributions to biology, he published on linguistics and statistics.
Interglossa (lit. “between + language”) is a constructed language devised by biologist Lancelot Hogben during World War II, as an attempt to put the international lexicon of science and technology, mainly of Greek and Latin origin, into a language with a purely isolating grammar. Hogben applied semantic principles to provide a reduced vocabulary of just over 880 words which might suffice for basic conversation among peoples of different nationality.
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