International Auxiliary Languages
"That international auxiliary
language is best which in every point offers the greatest facility to the greatest number" - Otto Jespersen, 1908
International Auxiliary Languages (IALs) are languages constructed with the aim of facilitating communication between people who would otherwise have no other language in common. They are usually designed to be significantly simpler, and thus more easily learnt, than national or "natural" languages.
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Here are some links to information on other International Auxiliary Languages. These links should lead you to all the information that is available on each language.
Esperanto - Don Harlow's compendious site.
Virtual Esperanto Library by Martin Weichert.
The International Language Ido maintained by myself.
The International Language Ido: improved Esperanto - Includes English-Ido, Ido-English vocabularies. By Robert Carnaghan.
Novial - Novial-Informatione, maintained by myself.
Novial - Bruce Gilson's pages on the language of Otto Jespersen.
Union Mundial pro Interlingua - Official Website of the Internationalllll Uniion for the IALA's Interlingua.
Interlingua 2001 - Celebrating 50 years of Interlingua. Pages by Thomas Breinstrup and others.
Glosa - Official-looking Glosa site with information in several languages, by Marcel Springer
Glosa - a possible second language for the world by Robin Gaskell.
Occidental - Naturalistic IAL published by Edgar de Wahl in 1922. Pages (partly in Norwegian) by Morten Svendsen.
Cosmoglotta - Electronic journal in Interlingue-Occidental. Pages by Robert Petry.
Latino sine flexione - Nice new pages from Jay Bowks on Peano's "Latin without inflexions".
Basic English - Simplification of English invented by C. K. Ogden. Pages by Jim Bauer.
Volapük - First IAL ever to gain mass acceptance, now looks quite archaic. Pages by Ken Caviness.
Dutton Speedwords - Shorthand system also proposed as an international language. Pages by Robert Petry.
Dutton Speedwords - Internet resource from the New Congress s.Z.
Novial 98 based on the language of Otto Jespersen.
Novial Pro - Novial reform by Marcos Franco.
Latino Moderne - Highly naturalistic Latin-based IAL proposed by David Stark.
Romanova - New naturalistic IAL. Pages by David Crandall and others.
LangX/Lang53 - New project to define a hierarchy of languages. Pages by Antony Alexander.
Lango - Project for an IAL based on a spelling reformed English, by Robert Craig and Antony Alexander.
Ceqli - Language based on English and Mandarin, by Rex F. May
Unish - International language project by Sejong University in South Korea. This site is now the home of the Journal of Universal Language, information on Unish can still be found here
Lingua Franca Nova - Romance-based IAL by Dr. George Boeree
Intal - Novial-like system developed by Erich Weferling
Intal - Le INTernational Auksiliari Lingue - new Intal site by Stefan Fisahn, with complete grammar of Intal
Folkspraak - Germanic-based IAL, presented by the The Folkspraak Institute
Universal Picture Language - context-based picture language, presented by Wally Flint
Aiola - New Esperanto-like project by the Aiola Research Group (ARG)
Blissymbolics - Symbol system by Charles K. Bliss. New activeBliss site courtesy of Matt Landau
Lojban - Logical language developed from James Cooke Brown's Loglan. Presented by the Logical Language Group (LLG)
Esata - Based on English cut down for international use. Including complete description of the language
Sona - by Kenneth Searight, designed with sonority in mind, based on a limited set of "radicals"
Neo Patwa - formerly Dunia Patwa, creole-based system by Jens Wilkinson
Atlango - Esperanto-derived system by Richard A. Antonius
Mondlango - Another Esperanto-based system, this time with a fair helping of English, by He Yafu
Kotava - La langue de communication universelle, aprioristic system developed since 1975
Latinvlo - a development of Stephen Chase Houghton's Master Language, by Paul Bartlett
Medilingua is an attempt to reform Novial in the direction of Interlingua (IALA)
Europaio / Modern Indo-European is a project to revive Proto-Indo-European, with multilingual website
Temenia is an international auxiliary language, or model for constructing one, which is unusual in that it uses the Greek alphabet
Pandunia is a constructed language with a cross-cultural vocabulary and phonology with traits from the most widely spoken languages of the world, by Risto Kupsala
Toki Pona is a constructed language with a limited vocabulary, simple phonology and positive outlook, by Sonja Elen Kisa
Sasxsek - A Language for Earth, a constructed language designed to be used as an auxiliary language, by Dana Nutter
Lingwa de Planeta or LdP, a new project based on world languages such as Chinese, Russian and Arabic. By Dmitry Ivanov and others.
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