Interlingua
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Interlingua is a planned language using words that are found in most West-European languages. It was made by a group of people that worked on it for more than 20 years, and they finished and published the first dictionary in 1951.
Inter is the same root word like you see in the words interaction, interface and so on, and it means between or to each other; lingua means language. They chose the name Interlingua because they wanted it to be used for people of different countries to talk to each other easily. Because Interlingua was made by people to be easy, it is easier than other languages to learn.
Many thousands of people know Interlingua, and Interlingua speakers say that millions can understand it (read texts in it and listen to someone talk in it) without having to learn it first.
There are two other planned langages in the world that have more than 1000 speakers, Esperanto and Ido. Those two were made before Interlingua. Some people think that Esperanto and Ido are easy to learn because they have no exceptions (words that break the rules) but other people think Interlingua is easier because the makers chose all the words to be easy to understand for people who know English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian, plus languages like Occitan and Romanian, languages that used to be Latin, the language used in Rome a long time ago.
Actually, people that use Interlingua say that their language is actually new Latin, just simpler and modernized (made new).
[change] Example text in Interlingua
Lingua natural e musical
de parolas international
e un grammatica minimal.
Comprensibile facilemente
per personas intelligente.
Le medio de communication
adequate pro le solution
del confusion de Babylon.
[change] See also
- Interlingua has its own Wikipedia.
