Interlingue
Sign in to saveInterlingue (; ISO 639 ie, ile), originally Occidental (), is an international auxiliary language created in 1922 and renamed in 1949. Its creator, Edgar de Wahl, sought to achieve maximal grammatical regularity and natural character. The vocabulary is based on pre-existing words from various languages and a derivational system which uses recognized prefixes and suffixes.
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Interlingue is an international auxiliary language created in 1922 by Edgar de Wahl, designed to help people from different countries communicate by using a simplified grammar and vocabulary drawn from existing languages. It matters as a historical example of efforts to bridge language barriers through a constructed system that prioritizes grammatical consistency and recognizable word roots.
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Key facts
- Language.name
- Interlingue
- Language.image
- Unde yelb.svg
- Language.imagescale
- 0.7
- Language.imagealt
- Symbol of Interlingue, a black tilde on a circular yellow background
- Language.altname
- Occidental
- Language.creator
- Edgar de Wahl
- Language.created
- 1922
- Language.setting
- International auxiliary language
- Language.family
- Constructed language based on Indo-European languages
- Language.script
- Latin script
- Language.ancestor
- Auli
- Language.iso1
- ie
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33 sectionsContents
- History and activity
- Beginnings
- Vienna period and World War II
- Language standardization
- IALA, Interlingua, and name change to Interlingue
- Stagnation and revival
- Language philosophy
- Vocabulary
- Symbol
- Linguistic features
- Orthography
- Phonology
- Vowels
- Consonants
- Stress
- Grammar
- Articles
- Personal pronouns
- Grammatical endings
- Correlatives
- Verbs
- Adverbs
- Derivation
- Affixes
- Ease of learning
- Literature
- Interlingue literature
- Example texts
- See also
- External links
- Grammar, dictionaries and tools
- Texts
- References
Interlingue (; ISO 639 ie, ile), originally Occidental (), is an international auxiliary language created in 1922 and renamed in 1949. Its creator, Edgar de Wahl, sought to achieve maximal grammatical regularity and natural character. The vocabulary is based on pre-existing words from various languages and a derivational system which uses recognized prefixes and suffixes.
Many of Interlingue's derived word forms reflect those common to certain Western European languages, primarily the Romance languages, along with some Germanic vocabulary. Many of its words are formed using de Wahl's rule, a set of rules for regular conversion of all but six verb infinitives into derived words including from Latin double-stem verbs (e.g. to see and its derivative ). The result is a naturalistic and regular language that is easy to understand at first sight for individuals acquainted with certain Western European languages. Readability and simplified grammar, along with the regular appearance of the magazine , made Occidental popular in Europe during the years before World War II despite efforts by the Nazis to suppress international auxiliary languages.