Cave Beck

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cave Beck (1623 - c.1706) is known as the author of an early constructed language. In The Universal Character, published in London in 1657, he proposed a universal language based on a numerical system.

[edit] References

• Cave Beck: The universal character, by which all the nations in the world may understand one anothers conceptions, reading out of one common writing in their own mother tongues; an invention of general use, the practice whereof may be attained in two hours space, observing the grammatical directions, which character is so contrived, that it may be spoken as well as written. London: William Weekley, 1657 (Reprint: University Microfilms, 1981)