Editing Interlingue (section)

{{short description|International auxiliary language created 1922}}
{{distinguish|Interlingua|ApI Interlingua|Occitan language}}
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{{Infobox language
| name             = Interlingue
| nativename       = ''Interlingue''
| image            = Unde yelb.svg
| imagescale       = 0.7
| imagealt         = Symbol of Interlingue, a black tilde on a circular yellow background
| altname          = Occidental
| creator          = [[Edgar de Wahl]]
| created          = 1922
| setting          = [[International auxiliary language]]
| family           = [[Constructed language]] based on [[Indo-European languages]]
| script           = [[Latin script]]
| ancestor         = Auli
| iso1             = ie
| iso2             = ile
| iso3             = ile
| linglist         = ile
| glotto           = inte1260
| glottorefname    = Interlingue (Occidental)
| notice           = IPA
| familycolor      = 
}}
{{Quote box
| title = From the ''Lord's Prayer'' (in Interlingue)
| quote = Patre nor, qui es in li cieles,
mey tui nómine esser sanctificat...
}}
'''Interlingue''' ({{IPA|ie|interˈliŋɡwe||LL-Q35850 (ile)-Frzzl-Interlingue.wav}}; [[ISO 639]] ''ie'', ''ile''), originally '''Occidental''' ({{IPA|ie|oktsidenˈtaːl||LL-Q35850 (ile)-Frzzl-Occidental.wav}}), is an [[international auxiliary language]] created in 1922 and renamed in 1949. Its creator, [[Edgar de Wahl]], sought to achieve maximal [[Grammaticality|grammatical]] regularity and [[Natural language|natural character]]. The vocabulary is based on pre-existing words from various languages and a derivational system which uses recognized prefixes and suffixes.

Many of Interlingue's derived word forms reflect those common to certain [[Western Europe]]an languages, primarily the [[Romance languages|Romance]] languages, along with some Germanic vocabulary. Many of its words are formed using [[de Wahl's rule]], a set of rules for regular conversion of all but six verb infinitives into derived words including from [[Latin]] double-stem verbs (e.g. ''vi'''d'''er'' to see and its derivative ''vi'''s'''ion''). The result is a naturalistic and regular language that is easy to understand at first sight for individuals acquainted with certain Western European languages. Readability and simplified grammar, along with the regular appearance of the magazine ''Cosmoglotta'', made Occidental popular in Europe during the years before [[World War II]] despite efforts by the Nazis to suppress international auxiliary languages.

Occidental survived the war, but the community had been out of touch with the language's creator since 1939. A [[Baltic German]] naval officer and teacher from [[Estonia]], de Wahl refused to leave his Tallinn home [[Heim ins Reich|for Germany]], even after his house was destroyed in the 1943 [[Bombing of Tallinn in World War II|air raids on the city]] forcing him to take refuge in a psychiatric hospital. Since most of his mail had been intercepted, he died in 1948 largely unaware of developments in the language. The name change to ''Interlingue'' took place the following year for two reasons: (1) to demonstrate to the [[Soviet Union]] the language's neutrality, and (2) the expectation of a possible union or closer collaboration with the community around [[Interlingua]], a competing naturalistic project under development. Many users were lost following the latter's appearance in 1951, beginning a period of decline until the advent of the Internet.