artificial language first published in 1951 and based on common words in English and the Romance languages developed as an addional international language, artificial language designed to make international communication easy (mainly among scientists); artificial language for machine translation
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Interlingua Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
interlingua
n
1. a language used for international communication [syn: interlanguage]
2. an artificial language proposed for use as an auxiliary international language; based on words common to english and the romance language [syn: interlingua]
Interlingua is an artificial language invented by Alexander Gode around 1950.
The language is: Interlingua
The language is: Interlingua
Noun
1. an artificial language proposed for use as an auxiliary international language; based on words common to English and the Romance languages
(hypernym) artificial language
Interlingua Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Interlingua (; ISO 639 language codes ia, ina) is an international auxiliary language (IAL), developed between 1937 and 1951 by the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). 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 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, making it unusually easy to learn, at least for those whose native languages were sources of Interlingua's vocabulary and grammar. 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, though it is actively spoken by only a few hundred.
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