Not to be confused with Interlingue, Interlanguage, ApI Interlingua, or Interlingual machine translation.
Interlingua
interlingua
Logo
Pronunciation
[inteɾˈliŋɡwa]
Created by
International Auxiliary Language Association
Date
1951
Setting and usage
Scientific registration of international vocabulary; international auxiliary language
Users
A few hundred (2007)[1]
Purpose
International auxiliary language
Interlingua
Writing system
Latin script
Sources
Source languages: English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Official status
Regulated by
No regulating body
Language codes
ISO 639-1
ia
ISO 639-2
ina
ISO 639-3
ina
Glottolog
inte1239
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Interlingua (/ɪntərˈlɪŋɡwə/) 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 hundreds of millions of people who speak Romance languages,[2] though it is actively spoken by only a few hundred.[1]
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.[3][4]
The name Interlingua comes from the Latin words inter, meaning 'between', and lingua, meaning 'tongue' or 'language'. These morphemes are the same in Interlingua; thus, Interlingua would mean 'between language'.
^ abFiedler, Sabine (2007). "Phraseology in planned languages". In Burger, Harald; Dobrovol'Skij, Dmitrij; Kühn, Peter; Norrick, Neal R. (eds.). Phraseology: Ein internationales Handbuch der zeitgenössischen Forschung, Volume 2. De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 779–788. doi:10.1515/9783110190762.779. ISBN 978-3-11-019831-7.
^Yeager, Leland B. (1991). "Le linguistica como reclamo pro Interlingua" [Linguistics as an advertisement for Interlingua]. Interlinguistica e Interlingua: Discursos public. Beekbergen, Netherlands: Servicio de Libros UMI.
^Gode 1971, Introduction
^Breinstrup, Thomas, Preface, Interlingua course for beginners, Bilthoven, Netherlands: Union Mundial pro Interlingua, 2006.
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