Meanings
- uncountableAn a posteriori international auxiliary language created in 1868 by Jean Pirro.
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Other auxlangs of this period include Joseph Schipfer’s Communicationssprache (1839), a simplified version of French; Jean Pirro’s Universalglot (1868), one of the first fully developed auxlangs to integrate linguistic features from multiple languages; and Johann Martin Schleyer’s Volapük (1880), which was the most successful auxlang until Esperanto supplanted it.
2026 June 28 (last accessed), Nathan Sanders, “A primer on constructed languages”, in University of Toronto, archived from the original on 01 Nov 2025, page 7
Origin
- Ancient Greekγλῶττα“tongue”
- Latinūniversālis“universal”
- EnglishUniversalglot
Presumably from Latin ūniversālis (“universal”) + Ancient Greek γλῶττα (glôtta, “tongue”). By surface analysis, universal + -glot.
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Universalglot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Universalglot
“Universalglot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Universalglot. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Universalglot,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Universalglot.
Source: Universalglot on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.