Interlingua (IALA)

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Interlingua
Spoken in: many countries of Earth
Timeline/Universe: international auxiliary language
Total speakers: unknown
Genealogical classification: A posteriori
Romance-based
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

  1. "Spelling & Pronunciation," A Grammar of Interlingua.
This article is part of a series on International Auxiliary Languages.

Romance-based Auxlangs: Aercant * Atlango * Interlingua * Latin Nov * Novial * Occidental (Interlingue) * Panroman * Romanal
Germanic-based Auxlangs: Folksprak * Nordien
Slavic Auxlangs: Novoslovnica
Turkic Auxlangs: Jalpi Turkic
African Auxlangs: Afrihili
Mixed-Origin Auxlangs: Esperanto * Adjuvilo * Ido * Ayola * Medial Europan * Bolak * Kotava * North American * Pantos-dimou-glossa * Pasetok * Sasxsek * Universalglot * Volapük
A priori auxlangs: -