ABSTRACT
THIS book presents the most necessary vocabulary of the international language NOVIAL (NOV new, International Auxiliary Language). In my book, An International Language (London, G. Allen & Unwin; German translation Eine internationale Sprache, Heidelberg, C. Winter), the reader will find : (I) an introduction showing the urgent need for such a language, (2) the history of the movement with criticism of earlier proposed artificial languages, (3) a detailed grammar, in which, chapter by chapter, the reasons are given that have led to precisely those and to no other forms, (4) the scientific principles of wordselection, and (5) some specimens intended to show the use of the language for different purposes and in different styles.
