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International Auxiliary Language Association: A major effort to systematize the international scientific vocabulary. It aims to be immediately comprehensible by Romance language speakers and to some extent English speakers. Intal: 1956 Erich Weferling: An effort to unite the most common systems of constructed languages. Lingua sistemfrater: 1957
An international auxiliary language [A] (sometimes acronymized as IAL or contracted as auxlang) is a language meant for communication between people from different nations, who do not share a common first language. An auxiliary language is primarily a foreign language and often a constructed language. The concept is related to but separate from ...
Below are the top foreign languages studied in American institutions of higher education (i.e., colleges and universities), based on the Modern Language Association's census of fall 2021 enrollments. "Percentage" refers to each language as a percentage of total U.S. foreign language enrollments. [3]: 49
Esperanto (/ ˌ ɛ s p ə ˈ r ɑː n t oʊ /, /-æ n t oʊ /) [7] [8] is the world's most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language.Created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887 to be 'the International Language' (la Lingvo Internacia), it is intended to be a universal second language for international communication.
An auxiliary language is one not the primary or native language of a community. It may refer to: Interlanguage, an idiolect that has been developed by a learner of a second language; International auxiliary language, a planned language constructed for international communication, such as Esperanto or International Sign
This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect . For example, Arabic is sometimes considered a single language centred on Modern Standard Arabic , other authors consider its mutually unintelligible varieties separate languages. [ 1 ]
Languages for Pan-Germanic use have been created as well. Examples include Tutonish, a Pan-Germanic project by Elias Molee (1902), which was intended to be an auxiliary language at first but to eventually supplant all other Germanic languages; Euronord, an effort by A.J. Pilgrim (1965); and Folkspraak, a heterogeneous project consisting of various dialects, started in 1995.
Flow chart on how nouns are derived from verbs in Occidental-Interlingue using De Wahl's Rule. Both Occidental-Interlingue and Interlingua are naturalistic constructed languages based on common Western European vocabulary, and share approximately 90% the same vocabulary when orthographic differences and final vowels (filisofie vs. philosophia for example) are not taken into account. [9]