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Sign in to saveInterlingua (, ) is an international auxiliary language (IAL) developed between 1937 and 1951 by the American International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). It is a constructed language of the "naturalistic" variety, whose vocabulary, grammar, and other characteristics are derived from natural languages. Interlingua literature maintains that (written) Interlingua is comprehensible to the billions of people who speak Romance languages, though it is actively spoken by only a few hundred.
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Interlingua is an artificial language created between 1937 and 1951 designed to be an international auxiliary language that could help people from different countries communicate with each other. Although it's based on the structure of natural languages and is theoretically understandable to Romance language speakers, it has never gained widespread adoption and is actively spoken by only a few hundred people today.
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Key facts
- Language.name
- Interlingua
- Language.speakers
- A few hundred
- Language.date
- 2007
- Language.fam1
- International auxiliary language
- Language.creator
- International Auxiliary Language Association
- Language.created
- 1951
- Language.setting
- Scientific registration of international vocabulary; international auxiliary language
- Language.posteriori
- Source languages: English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
- Language.script
- Latin script
- Language.agency
- No regulating body
- Language.iso1
- ia
- Language.iso2
- ina
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33 sectionsContents
- Overview
- History
- International Auxiliary Language Association
- Development of a new language
- The four models
- Finalization
- Interlingua's first decades
- Interlingua today
- Community
- Orthography
- Interlingua alphabet
- Collateral orthography
- Phonology
- Pronunciation
- Stress
- Phonotactics
- Loanwords
- Vocabulary
- Eligibility
- Form
- An illustration
- Free word-building
- Word-building by analogy
- Usefulness and clarity
- Grammar
- Reception
- Samples
- Flags and symbols
- Specification
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Interlingua (, ) is an international auxiliary language (IAL) developed between 1937 and 1951 by the American International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). It is a constructed language of the "naturalistic" variety, whose vocabulary, grammar, and other characteristics are derived from natural languages. Interlingua literature maintains that (written) Interlingua is comprehensible to the billions of people who speak Romance languages, though it is actively spoken by only a few hundred.
Interlingua was developed to combine a simple, mostly regular grammar with a vocabulary common to a wide range of western European languages, making it easy to learn for those whose native languages were sources of Interlingua's vocabulary and grammar.
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1951 introductionsConstructed languagesConstructed languages introduced in the 1950sFusional languagesInterlinguaInternational auxiliary languagesISO language articles citing sources other than EthnologueLanguages with ISO 639-1 codeLanguages with ISO 639-2 codeRomance languagesUse Oxford spelling from December 2010