On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 1:00 AM, soreiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[...] > A question: who made IA page on wikipedia? Or better, what language is > IA? >[...]
uhm... first of all, sorry for my extreme lurking :) This project is very interesting to me, and in the future I'll surely contribute. I wrote the article translating it from Italian (my mother tongue). To satisfy your curiosity: Interlingua is an attempt to standardize international lexicon by prototyping anglo-romance national languages via objective rules. (You can think of it as an example of linguistic engineering :-P) The core concept is that all occidental languages share the same greek-latin heritage. So a lot of words are the same (with special emphasis on technical ones) except for national influence. A little example: the word "sea" Italian: mare French: mer Spanish: mar / Portuguese: mar English: sea, but we have compounds such as "marine" which retain the root "mar-" So the root "mar-" and its derivatives are internationally understandable by anglo-romance persons and places where anglo-romance influence is strong, and it is "de iure" a good example of Interlingua/international word. I hope I didn't bore you too long :) For further references, you can see also wikipedia page about Interlingua (or mail me). Greetings Giovanni _______________________________________________ Netsukuku mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dyne.org/mailman/listinfo/netsukuku
