Interlingue

Also known as Occidental, Interlingue language, Interlingue (Occidental)

Interlingue (; ISO 639 ie, ile), originally Occidental (), is an international auxiliary language created in 1922 and renamed in 1949. Its creator, Edgar de Wahl, sought to achieve maximal grammatical regularity and natural character. The vocabulary is based on pre-existing words from various languages and a derivational system which uses recognized prefixes and suffixes.

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Interlingue is an international auxiliary language created in 1922 by Edgar de Wahl, designed to help people from different countries communicate by using a simplified grammar and vocabulary drawn from existing languages. It matters as a historical example of efforts to bridge language barriers through a constructed system that prioritizes grammatical consistency and recognizable word roots.

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Key facts

Language.name: Interlingue
Language.image: Unde yelb.svg
Language.imagescale: 0.7
Language.imagealt: Symbol of Interlingue, a black tilde on a circular yellow background
Language.altname: Occidental
Language.creator: Edgar de Wahl
Language.created: 1922
Language.setting: International auxiliary language
Language.family: Constructed language based on Indo-European languages
Language.script: Latin script
Language.ancestor: Auli
Language.iso1: ie
Language.iso2: ile
Language.iso3: ile
Language.linglist: ile
Language.glotto: inte1260
Language.glottorefname: Interlingue (Occidental)
Language.notice: IPA

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Official website

The Occidental Language

Occidental is an international auxiliary language created by Edgar de Wahl in 1922. This is an unofficial website intended to advertise Occidental and aggregate modern resources from the whole Occidental community.

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Described at

In the Land of Invented Languages by Arika Okrent

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Interlingue
Official website: occidental-lang.com
Image: Unde yelb.svg

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native label: Interlingue
Wikimedia language code: ie
publication date: 1922-00-00
Commons category: Interlingue
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 50
exact match: data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-211841048
P10369: Atlantic Ocean
described at URL: langmaker.github.io/db/mdl_interlingue.htm
Stack Exchange tag: conlang.stackexchange.com/tags/occidental

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33 sections

Contents

History and activity
Beginnings
Vienna period and World War II
Language standardization
IALA, Interlingua, and name change to Interlingue
Stagnation and revival
Language philosophy
Vocabulary
Symbol
Linguistic features
Orthography
Phonology
Vowels
Consonants
Stress
Grammar
Articles
Personal pronouns
Grammatical endings
Correlatives
Verbs
Adverbs
Derivation
Affixes
Ease of learning
Literature
Interlingue literature
Example texts
See also
External links
Grammar, dictionaries and tools
Texts
References

Many of Interlingue's derived word forms reflect those common to certain Western European languages, primarily the Romance languages, along with some Germanic vocabulary. Many of its words are formed using de Wahl's rule, a set of rules for regular conversion of all but six verb infinitives into derived words including from Latin double-stem verbs (e.g. to see and its derivative ). The result is a naturalistic and regular language that is easy to understand at first sight for individuals acquainted with certain Western European languages. Readability and simplified grammar, along with the regular appearance of the magazine , made Occidental popular in Europe during the years before World War II despite efforts by the Nazis to suppress international auxiliary languages.