Interlingua (/ɪntərˈlɪŋɡwə/; ISO 639 language codes ia, ina) is an Italicinternational auxiliary language (IAL), developed between 1937 and 1951 by the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). It ranks among the top most widely used IALs, and is the most widely used naturalistic IAL[2] – in other words, those IALs whose vocabulary, grammar and other characteristics are derived from natural languages, rather than being centrally planned. Interlingua was developed to combine a simple, mostly regular grammar[3][4] with a vocabulary common to the widest possible range of western European languages,[5]making it unusually easy to learn, at least for those whose native languages were sources of Interlingua's vocabulary and grammar.[6]Conversely, it is used as a rapid introduction to many natural languages.[2]
Interlingua literature maintains that (written) Interlingua is comprehensible to the hundreds of millions of people who speak Romance languages,[7] though it is actively spoken by only a few hundred.[1]
The name Interlingua comes from the Latin words inter, meaning "between", and lingua, meaning "tongue" or "language". These morphemes are identical in Interlingua. Thus, "Interlingua" would mean "between language".
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