Interlingua

Interlingua

See also: interlingua and interlíngua

English

Etymology

Coined possibly independently multiple times in multiple languages, but modern use derives from the Interlingua word. The word itself comes from Latin inter (“between”) + lingua (“language”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĭn'tə(r)lĭng"wə, IPA^(key): /ˈɪntə(ɹ)ˌlɪŋɡwə/

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Proper noun

Interlingua

1. A constructed interlanguage based on Romance languages, English, German, Russian and Latin, developed by the International Auxiliary Language Association, and first published in 1951.
2. Latino sine flexione, a simplified version of Latin by Giuseppe Peano

Usage notes

Not to be confused with Interlingue, a different constructed language.

Related terms

• Interlingual
• Interlinguist
• Interlinguistics

 

Translations

interlanguage based on Romance languages

Albanian: interlingua (sq) Arabic: إِنْتَرْلِنْغْوَا‎ (ar) f (ʔintarlinḡwā) Armenian: ինտերլինգվա (hy) (interlingva) Basque: interlingua (eu) Belarusian: інтэрлі́нгва f (interlínhva) Bulgarian: интерли́нгва f (interlíngva) Catalan: interlingua (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 國際語／国际语 (zh) (Guójìyǔ) Czech: interlingua (cs) Danish: interlingua Dutch: Interlingua (nl) Esperanto: Interlingvao (eo) Finnish: interlingua (fi) French: Interlingua (fr) Galician: Interlingua Georgian: ინტერლინგუა (inṭerlingua) German: Interlingua (de) Gujarati: ઇંટરલિંગુઆ (iṇṭarliṅguā) Hebrew: אינטרלינגואה‎ f (interlingua) Hindi: इंटरलिंगुआ (hi) (iṇṭarliṅguā) Hungarian: interlingva (hu) Ido: Interlingua (io) Interlingua: interlingua (ia), Interlingua (ia) Italian: interlingua (it) Japanese: インターリングア (ja) (Intāringua), インターリングア語 (Intāringua-go) Kashubian: interlingua Korean: 인테르링구아 (Intereuringgua), 인터링구아 (Inteoringgua) Latin: Interlingua Lithuanian: Interlingua (lt) Luxembourgish: Interlingua Macedonian: интерли́нгва f (interlíngva) Mongolian: интерлингва (interlingva) Norwegian: Interlingua Persian: زبان میانجی‎ (fa) (zabân-e miyânji), اینترلینگو‎ (interlingua) Polish: interlingua (pl) f Portuguese: interlíngua (pt) f Romanian: Interlingua Russian: интерли́нгва (ru) f (intɛrlíngva) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: интерлингва m Roman: interlingva (sh) m Slovak: Interlingua Spanish: interlingua (es) f Swedish: interlingua (sv) Thai: ภาษาอินเตอร์ลิงกวา (paasăa inderlinggwaa) Turkish: İnterlingua (tr) Ukrainian: інтерлі́нгва (uk) f (interlínhva), інтерлі́нґва (uk) f (interlíngva) Urdu: انٹرلنگوا‎ (iṇṭarliṅguā) Vietnamese: Interlingua (vi) West Frisian: Ynterlingua

See also

• ISO 639-1 code ia, ISO 639-3 code ina (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Interlingua, ina ⁠

Further reading

• Googlegroup of the Academia pro Interlingua
• Interlingua Wiktionaries
• Union Mundial pro Interlingua
• Wikia of the Academia pro Interlingua
• Wikipedia in Interlingua
• Yahoogroup of the Academia pro Interlingua

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Interlingua

Proper noun

Interlingua

1. Alternative letter-case form of interlingua (“Interlingua”)

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Romanian

Proper noun

Interlingua f

1. Interlingua