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The auxiliary language Interglossa was devised by biologist Lancelot Hogben during World War II as an attempt to put the international lexicon of science and technology mainly of Greek and Latin origin into a language with a purely isolating grammar. Interglossa was published in 1943 as just a draft of an auxiliary. Hogben applied semantic principles to provide a reduced vocabulary of just over 880 words which suffices for basic conversation among peoples of different nationality.