Guérard A.L. A short history of the International Language Movement

Boni and Liveright Publishers, New York. — Printed in Great Britain. — San Francisco, August 1921. — 286 p.The international language problem is not a fad and not a Utopian dream: it is a fact. British and American officers during the Great War had to face it every day: at times it was pressed upon their attention with tragic insistence. Men who speak different languages have business with one another — this cannot be helped. When half a dozen Europeans, who may have been born within a hundred miles of each other, are gathered together, the difficulty arises. How shall we meet the situation ? Shall we have to learn ten languages beside our own, or five, or two, or one? And on what basis will the favoured tongues be selected ? It is the various solutions proposed to this problem that we shall examine in this little book.Natural Languages
French
English
An Anglo-French Condominium
Latin
Artificial Languages
The Artificial Element In Language
"Philosophical" Languages
Volapük
Esperanto: Inception And Structure of The Language
History Of The Esperanto Movement
The Neo-Romanic Group: Idiom Neutral, Panroman, etc.
The Delegation For The Adoption Of An international Language — Ido
Latino Sine Flexione. Academia pro Interlingua. The Anglo-Latin group
To-day and To-morrow
Unpartisan Efforts and the Conditions of Success
Anticipations
Appendices
Bibliographical notes
General
Artificial Languages and Philology
A Tentative List Of Artificial Language projects
A Critical Comparison Of Esperanto, Ido, Interlingua, and Romanal