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Interlingua|ɪntəˈlɪŋgwə|
Also interlingua.
[f. inter- + L. lingua tongue.]
An artificially devised international language; spec. one promoted by the International Auxiliary Language Association of New York.
Several invented languages have been so named.
1922A. L. Guérard Short Hist. Internat. Lang. Movement v. 127 Those which, like Neutral, Ido, Interlingua, present themselves as the collective work of some ‘Academy’ bear..the mark of one master mind. 1927E. S. Pankhurst Delphos iv. 38 ‘Interlingua is the standard of the insurrection against the routine of red tape and the tyranny of the ancient grammarian’, thus wrote Kerchoffs, the first director of the Volapük Academy, in 1886. Giuseppe Peano..was presently to translate those words into a language scheme, and to adopt Interlingua as its title. 1928O. Jespersen Internat. Lang. i. 45 This ‘interlingua’ is now employed in the publication of Academia pro Interlingua. 1953J. B. Carroll Study of Lang. iv. 127 A recent attempt to rationalize an artificial language by making maximal use of elements common to the most widely used natural languages is Interlingua, the work of the International Auxiliary Language Association of New York. 1955Sci. News Let. 29 Jan. 79/2 Interlingua is a language composed of elements common to Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and other Romance languages. Ibid. 22 Oct. 258/2 Interlingua is no overnight creation of one linguist or even one group of linguists. No one sat down and theorized as to what an international language should be. Instead three decades ago, in 1924, an ambassador-to-be, a chemist, several radio engineers, several educators, editors and linguistic experts started a long and detailed inquiry into what an international language should be. 1956J. Whatmough Lang. iv. 59 An interlingua needs more than expletives and exclamations. 1960[see interlanguage n.]. |