auxiliary language

English

Noun

auxiliary language (plural auxiliary languages)

1. 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 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.

Synonyms

• auxlang

Derived terms

• international auxiliary language (IAL)

Translations

auxiliary language

• Aragonese: luenga auxiliar f
• Catalan: llengua auxiliar f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 輔助語／辅助语 (zh) (fǔzhùyǔ)

• Danish: hjælpesprog n
• Esperanto: helplingvo
• Finnish: apukieli
• French: langue auxiliaire f
• Galician: lingua auxiliar f, auxilingua f
• German: Hilfssprache (de) f
• Ido: helpolinguo (io)
• Interlingua: lingua auxiliar
• Italian: lingua ausiliaria f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hjelpespråk n

  Nynorsk: hjelpespråk n

• Portuguese: língua auxiliar f
• Romanian: limbă auxiliară f
• Russian: вспомога́тельный язы́к m (vspomogátelʹnyj jazýk)
• Spanish: lengua auxiliar f, auxilengua f
• Swedish: hjälpspråk n
• Volapük: yufapük

international auxiliary language — see international auxiliary language

minority language — see minority language

liturgical language — see liturgical language

See also

• constructed language