Columbia Encyclopedia entry: Interlingua
Interlinguaĭn′tərlĭng'gwə, name of an artificial language introduced in 1951; also the name of a simplified form of Latin (sometimes called Latino Sine Flexione, or Latin without inflection) introduced in the early 20th cent. See international language.
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Interlingua is an international auxiliary language, developed between 1937 and 1951 by the International Auxiliary Language Association. It is the second or third most widely used IAL and the most widely used naturalistic IAL: in other words, its vocabulary, grammar and other characteristics are largely 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, Gode, Alexander, "Introduction", Interlingua-English: A dictionary of the international language, Revised Edition, New York: Continuum International Publishing Group,...more »
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International language, sometimes called universal language, a language intended to be used by people of different linguistic backgrounds to facilitate communication among them and to reduce t...
