Interglossa
Sign in to saveInterglossa (lit. "between + language") is a constructed language devised by biologist Lancelot Hogben during World War II, as an attempt to put the international lexicon of science and technology, mainly of Greek and Latin origin, into a language with a purely isolating grammar. Interglossa was published in 1943 as just a draft of an auxiliary. Hogben applied semantic principles to provide a reduced vocabulary of just over 880 words which might suffice for basic conversation among peoples of different nationality.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Interglossa
- Language.creator
- Lancelot Hogben
- Language.created
- 1943
- Language.setting
- international auxiliary language
- Language.fam2
- auxiliary language
- Language.posteriori
- Latin and Greek
- Language.iso3
- igs
- Language.linglist
- igs
- Language.glotto
- inte1261
- Language.glottorefname
- Interglossa
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CALS: Language: Interglossa
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- inception
- 1943-00-00
- described at URL
- langmaker.github.io/db/mdl_interglossa.htm
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- History
- Alphabet and pronunciation
- Parts of speech
- “Sentence-landscape”
- Syntax
- Lexicon
- Sample text
- Word-list
- References
Interglossa (lit. "between + language") is a constructed language devised by biologist Lancelot Hogben during World War II, as an attempt to put the international lexicon of science and technology, mainly of Greek and Latin origin, into a language with a purely isolating grammar. Interglossa was published in 1943 as just a draft of an auxiliary. Hogben applied semantic principles to provide a reduced vocabulary of just over 880 words which might suffice for basic conversation among peoples of different nationality.
A descendant of Interglossa is Glosa (1970s–), which expanded and made changes to the words of the language.