Meanings
plural pasilalies
- rarea universal language
Besides systems that can be both written and spoken (pasilalies), or planned languages, there are also written-only projects (pasigraphies), which again can be divided into a priori and a posteriori systems.
[2022, Sabine Fiedler, Cyril Robert Brosch, “Planned languages and interlinguistics” (chapter 7), in Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 33
Origin
- Ancient Greekπᾶς“all”
- Frenchpasilalie
- Englishpasilaly
From French pasilalie, formed from Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs, “all”) + λαλιά (laliá, “speech, dialect”).
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