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Interlingua  

Definition

  • Interlingua is an international auxiliary language (IAL), a modern version of Latin, developed between 1937 and 1951 by the International Auxiliary Language Association. It ranks among the top three most widely used IALs (after Esperanto and perhaps Ido), and is the most widely used naturalistic IAL: in other words, its vocabulary, grammar and other characteristics are derived from natural languages. Interlingua was developed to combine a simple, mostly regular grammar with a vocabulary common to the widest possible range of languages, making it unusually easy to learn. Conversely, it is used as a rapid introduction to many natural languages. Interlingua literature maintains that (written) Interlingua is comprehensible to the hundreds of millions of people who speak a Romance language.

Identifier

  • INA

Notation

  • ia
  • IA
  • ina

In other languages

  • интерлингва

    Bulgarian

  • interlingua

    Croatian

  • interlingua

    Czech

  • interlingva
  • interlingua

    Danish

  • Interlingua

    Dutch

  • interlingua keel

    Estonian

  • interlingua

    Finnish

  • interlingua

    French

  • Interlingua

    German

  • ιντερλίνγκουα

    Greek

  • interlingva

    Hungarian

  • interlingua

    Icelandic

  • Interlingua

    Interlingua

  • Interlingua

    Irish

  • interlingua

    Italian

  • interlingva

    Latvian

  • interlingua

    Lithuanian

  • interlingua (tarpinė kalba)
  • Interlingua

    Maltese

  • interlingua

    Norwegian

  • interlingua

    Polish

  • interlíngua

    Portuguese

  • interlingua

    Romanian

  • interlingua

    Slovak

  • interlingua

    Slovenian

  • interlingua

    Spanish

  • interlingua

    Swedish

  • interlingua

    Turkish

  • інтерлінгва

    Ukrainian

URI

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/INA

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