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/

• Audio (CA)

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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)
• Marathi: इंटरलिंगुआ f (iṇṭarliṅguā)
• 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 Wiktionary
• Union Mundial pro Interlingua
• Wikia of the Academia pro Interlingua
• Wikipedia in Interlingua
• Yahoogroup of the Academia pro Interlingua

Interlingua

Proper noun

Interlingua

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

Romanian

Proper noun

Interlingua f

1. Interlingua