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Interlingua (, ) is an international auxiliary language (IAL) developed between 1937 and 1951 by the American International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). It is a constructed language of the "naturalistic" variety, whose vocabulary, grammar, and other characteristics are derived from natural languages. Interlingua literature maintains that (written) Interlingua is comprehensible to the billions of people who speak Romance languages, though it is actively spoken by only a few hundred.

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Interlingua is an artificial language created between 1937 and 1951 designed to be an international auxiliary language that could help people from different countries communicate with each other. Although it's based on the structure of natural languages and is theoretically understandable to Romance language speakers, it has never gained widespread adoption and is actively spoken by only a few hundred people today.

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Language.name: Interlingua
Language.speakers: A few hundred
Language.date: 2007
Language.fam1: International auxiliary language
Language.creator: International Auxiliary Language Association
Language.created: 1951
Language.setting: Scientific registration of international vocabulary; international auxiliary language
Language.posteriori: Source languages: English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Language.script: Latin script
Language.agency: No regulating body
Language.iso1: ia
Language.iso2: ina
Language.iso3: ina
Language.image: Bandiera de Interlingua.svg
Language.imagecaption: Interlingua flag
Language.notice: IPA
Language.glotto: inte1239
Language.glottorefname: Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association)

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Official website: www.interlingua.com
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inception: 1951-01-01
native label: interlingua
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 1500
Wikimedia language code: ia
Commons category: Interlingua
exact match: data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#Interlingua
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described at URL: langmaker.github.io/db/mdl_interlingua.htm
Stack Exchange tag: conlang.stackexchange.com/tags/interlingua

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Contents

Overview
History
International Auxiliary Language Association
Development of a new language
The four models
Finalization
Interlingua's first decades
Interlingua today
Community
Orthography
Interlingua alphabet
Collateral orthography
Phonology
Pronunciation
Stress
Phonotactics
Loanwords
Vocabulary
Eligibility
Form
An illustration
Free word-building
Word-building by analogy
Usefulness and clarity
Grammar
Reception
Samples
Flags and symbols
Specification
See also
References
Bibliography
External links

Interlingua was developed to combine a simple, mostly regular grammar with a vocabulary common to a wide range of western European languages, making it easy to learn for those whose native languages were sources of Interlingua's vocabulary and grammar.