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Interlingua is primarily a written language, and the pronunciation is not entirely settled. The sounds in parentheses are not used by all speakers. | Interlingua is primarily a written language, and the pronunciation is not entirely settled. The sounds in parentheses are not used by all speakers. | ||
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Revision as of 12:16, 8 September 2010
| 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 Romance languages.
Phonology
Interlingua is primarily a written language, and the pronunciation is not entirely settled. The sounds in parentheses are not used by all speakers.
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 ~ tʃ) | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u |
| Close-mid | e | o |
| Open | a |
