Word: pasilingua
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...universal language, "Volapuk," has already found a rival in a language equally new, and prospectively universal, called "Pasilingua." Its inventor (who is a German) has recognized that no existing language could serve the purpose of universality, and has accordingly devised a new tongue which shall suit the mouths of all men English is acknowledged to be the dominant principle; but how far its modification is necessary may be seen from the following verse of St. Matthew, ii, 3: Et quando ils partitefer schire, to angelo deode apparifer Fosephobi in una trauma, sagano: Arisire, takare ton jungon childon et tom matren...
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