The dialogue between linguistics and the poetic avant-garde in Russia in the 1920—1930s: experiments with a universal language
... Nikolay Yushmanov, and Evgeny Shmurlo attempted to create new international languages while systematizing and building a typology of universal languages. Of particular interest among the Avant-garde concepts is the ‘cosmic language of AO’ by the Gordin brothers, which builds on Khlebnikov’s ‘star language tradition but aims for cognitive and linguo-social changes. The article compares the scientific and poetic universal languages and concludes that there is a pervasive tendency towards linguistic ...
