Editing Novial (section)

{{short description|Constructed language}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Novial
| nativename       = {{lang|nov|novial}}
| image            = Flag of Novial.svg{{!}}border
| imagescale       = 0.7
| creator          = [[Otto Jespersen]]
| created          = 1928
| setting          = [[International auxiliary language]]
| fam2             = [[International auxiliary language]]
| posteriori       = [[Romance languages|Romance]] and [[Germanic languages]]; also [[Interlingue]] and [[Ido (language)|Ido]]
| iso3             = nov
| linglist         = nov
| lingua           = 51-AAB-dc
| glotto           = novi1234
| familycolor      = 
}}

'''Novial''' is an [[international auxiliary language]] (IAL) created by Danish linguist [[Otto Jespersen]] in 1928. It was designed to facilitate human communication between speakers of different native languages. The name of the language is a [[Blend word|blend]] of the Novial word ''novi'' (meaning 'new") and IAL.

Jespersen had been an early supporter of another international auxiliary language, [[Ido]], a reformed version of [[Esperanto]], before leaving to create his own language in 1928.

Novial's vocabulary is borrowed largely from the [[Romance languages|Romance]] and [[Germanic languages|Germanic]] languages, while its [[Analytic language|analytic]] grammar is influenced by [[English language|English]].

Novial was introduced in Jespersen's book ''An International Language'' in 1928.<ref name=Jesp>{{cite web|access-date=2020-04-03|title=An International Language - Otto Jespersen|url=http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/14934|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180821115704/http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/14934|archive-date=2018-08-21|website=www.feedbooks.com}}</ref> It was updated in his dictionary ''Novial Lexike'' in 1930,<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2020-04-03|title=Novial Lexike|url=http://www.blahedo.org/novial/nl.html|website=www.blahedo.org}}</ref> and further modifications were proposed in the 1930s, but the language became dormant with Jespersen's death in 1943.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2020-04-03|title=Novial language, alphabet and pronunciation|url=https://www.omniglot.com/writing/novial.htm|website=www.omniglot.com}}</ref> In the 1990s, with the revival of interest in constructed languages brought on by the [[Internet]], some people rediscovered Novial.{{Cn|date=January 2023}}