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'''Interlingua''' is an [[international auxiliary language]] developed and promoted by the ''International Auxiliary Language Association'' ('''IALA'''). The language is a [[naturalistic auxlang|naturalistic]] IAL based on common vocabulary found in [[Romance languages]] (namely [[French]], [[Italian]], [[Spanish]], and [[Portuguese]]) and Latin-influenced non-Romance languages (namely [[English]] and, to a lesser degree, [[German]] and [[Russian]]). | '''Interlingua''' is an [[international auxiliary language]] developed and promoted by the ''International Auxiliary Language Association'' ('''IALA'''). The language is a [[naturalistic auxlang|naturalistic]] IAL based on common grammar and vocabulary found in [[Romance languages]] (namely [[French]], [[Italian]], [[Spanish]], and [[Portuguese]]) and Latin-influenced non-Romance languages (namely [[English]] and, to a lesser degree, [[German]] and [[Russian]]). | ||
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Latest revision as of 02:09, 30 July 2017
| Interlingua | |
| Spoken in: | many countries of Earth |
| Timeline/Universe: | international auxiliary language |
| Total speakers: | unknown |
| Genealogical classification: | A posteriori
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| Basic word order: | SVO |
| Morphological type: | agglutinating |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | accusative |
| Created by: | |
| IALA | 1951 |
Interlingua is an international auxiliary language developed and promoted by the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). The language is a naturalistic IAL based on common grammar and vocabulary found in Romance languages (namely French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese) and Latin-influenced non-Romance languages (namely English and, to a lesser degree, German and Russian).
Phonology
The phonology of Interlingua was described in 1951 by Alexander Gode and Hugh Blair in the IALA publication A Grammar of Interlingua.[1]
Consonants
| Bilabial | Labio- dental |
Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Labial- velar |
Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | ɡ | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||
| Tap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | (d)ʒ | (h) | |||||||||
| Affricates | ts~s | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u |
| Close-mid | e | o |
| Open | a |
Notes
| This article is part of a series on International Auxiliary Languages. Romance-based Auxlangs: Aercant * Atlango * Interlingua * Latin Nov * Novial * Occidental (Interlingue) * Panroman * Romanal |
