Interlingua

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For information about Peano's Interlingua, see Latino Sine Flexione.
ConlangInterlingua
AuthorInternational Auxiliary Language Association
Year Began1951
Language Typeinternational auxiliary language
Lexicon Size100000
EtymologiesNo
GrammarYes
Sample TextsYes
PrimerYes

Interlingua was published in 1951 by the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA) as an IAL. It has been used for a translation of the Babel Text.

Interlingua is used in travel and tourism, correspondence, advertising, international exchange, and large, multinational gatherings. Interlingua is presented on CDs, radio, and television. It is used on the Internet in weblogs, mailing lists, and usenet groups. Universities and high schools offer Interlingua as a second language, as well as a way to learn other languages quickly and to better understand one's own language.

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Uniqueness

Interlingua is most widely spoken naturalistic auxiliary language. Developed between 1924 and 1951 by IALA, whose research program was established by Alice Vanderbilt Morris in consultation with Edward Sapir, William E. Collinson, and Otto Jespersen. Major influences on the eventual form of Interlingua included André Martinet and Alexander Gode.

Interlingua's control languages are English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish, with German and Russian as secondary controls. Words from any language are eligible for Interlingua, as long as their internationality is verified by the control languages. Most Interlingua words are present in many other languages in addition to the controls. Words are standardized using a prototype technique, devised to give each word its maximum international range.

Interlingua's grammar is also based on the control languages. It is greatly simplified, because IALA omitted every grammatical feature that was absent from even one control language. Thus, Interlingua has no adjective-noun agreement because this is absent from English. It has no continuous tense because this is absent from French.

Interlingua is recognizable at first sight or hearing to speakers of the Romance languages – at least 600,000,000 people – and to educated speakers of English. Interlingua is extremely easy to learn for speakers of other languages, because of its simplicity and regular word formation using a small set of affixes.

Interlingua speakers are most numerous in Northern and Eastern Europe and South America. Other concentrations of speakers are found in Central Europe, Russia, Ukraine, and Japan. The Union Mundial pro Interlingua, which promotes Interlingua internationally, has consultive status with UNESCO. The Interlingua-English Dictionary is an authoritative linguistic reference work.

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Language sources

English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Russian.

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Design principles

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Interest of others

Used to reach large audience without prior study; good introduction to the learning of modern Romance languages; indirect learning of much etymology.

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Other meanings

Interlingua should be distinguished from Latino Sine Flexione (LSF), which was sometimes called Interlingua. A simplified Latin, LSF was promoted by the Academia pro Interlingua. They later gave Gode permission to use the name Interlingua for IALA's newer language. Giuseppe Peano, who developed LSF, became involved in the development of this newer Interlingua. More recently, the Academia pro Interlingua in America dedicated itself to promoting the newer Interlingua.

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