Interlingua (disambiguation)

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Interlingua may be one of the following:

• Interlingua, an auxiliary language developed by the International Auxiliary Language Association.
• An alternative name for Latino Sine Flexione, a largely defunct auxiliary language developed by Giuseppe Peano.
• A general term describing any international auxiliary language. See also interlinguistics.
• A language-neutral representation of semantic and grammatical concepts; see Interlingual machine translation.
• A name given to the fictional "basic speech" used in science fiction settings, such as Star Trek and the works of Robert A. Heinlein.

You may also be looking for Interlingue, more commonly known as Occidental, a little-used auxiliary language originally devised by Edgar de Wahl.

Interlingua was also the name of a very successful UK translation agency, the first to become really big when it secured the contract for translating all of the Concorde documentation into English/French. It eventually went out of business due to its attempts to use early versions of computer-aided translation (CAT) tools that were inadequate for the job. The founders were a husband-and-wife team of British refugees from Germany who both had a technical background.