OTTO JESPERSEN

His Work for an International Auxiliary Language

By Henry Jacob, 1943

Published by the International Language (Ido) Society of Great Britain.

See also:
Otto Jespersen
- biography by Niels Haislund
Otto Jespersen Online Bibliography

Contents

Biographical Note

Introduction
Ethnic languages as auxiliary means of communication
Technology and the language problem
Jespersen's Novial
Phonetic Novial (1928)
Orthographic Novial (1934)
Otto Jespersen and IALA
Otto Jespersen on English
Jespersen's belief in linguistic progress

History of our language
Historio di nia linguo

Comparative Texts
The Times on Otto Jespersen


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