The Academia pro Interlingua was an organization dedicated to the promotion of
international auxiliary language
An international auxiliary language (sometimes acronymized as IAL or contracted as auxlang) is a language meant for communication between people from different nations, who do not share a common first language. An auxiliary language is primarily a ...
s, and is associated in particular with
Giuseppe Peano
Giuseppe Peano (; ; 27 August 1858 – 20 April 1932) was an Italian mathematician and glottologist. The author of over 200 books and papers, he was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory, to which he contributed much Mathematical notati ...
's language
Latino sine flexione
Latino sine flexione ("Latin without inflections"), Interlingua de Academia pro Interlingua (IL de ApI) or Peano's Interlingua (abbreviated as IL) is an international auxiliary language compiled by the Academia pro Interlingua under the chairmansh ...
(Latin without inflections).
The ''Academia'' was a descendant of the ''Kadem bevünetik volapüka'' (
International Academy of Volapük) created at a
Volapük congress in
Munich
Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...
in August 1887. Under
Waldemar Rosenberger
Waldemar Rosenberger, (, Vladimir Karlovich Rozenberger, 1848–1918) from Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, became director of the International Volapük Academy in 1892. Under his leadership, the Academy began to experiment more with the Vola ...
, who became the director in 1892, this group had transformed Volapük into
Idiom Neutral
Idiom Neutral is an international auxiliary language, published in 1902 by the International Academy of the Universal Language () under the leadership of Waldemar Rosenberger, a St. Petersburg engineer.
History
The Academy had its origin a ...
and changed its name to ''Akademi Internasional de Lingu Universal'' in 1898.
When the ''Akademi'' effectively chose to abandon Idiom Neutral in favor of Latino sine flexione in 1908, it elected Peano as its director, and the name of the group was changed to ''Academia pro Interlingua'' since ''Interlingua'' was an alternative name for Peano's language. The original ''Academia pro Interlingua'' survived until about 1939.
The official journals of the "Academia" were "Discussiones" (1909–13), "Circulares" (1915–24), and "Academia pro Interlingua" (1925–27). They have been recently published in a CD-Rom by the mathematics department of the university of
Turin
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. They show a collective attempt to propagate, in a democratic way, an international language to facilitate the scientific reports among nations, favouring the progress of civilization and culture.
Concerning
Interlingua de IALA
Interlingua (, ) is an international auxiliary language (IAL) developed between 1937 and 1951 by the American International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). It is a constructed language of the "naturalistic" variety, whose vocabulary, g ...
(IA)
Today the name
Interlingua
Interlingua (, ) is an international auxiliary language (IAL) developed between 1937 and 1951 by the American International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). It is a constructed language of the "naturalistic" variety, whose vocabulary, ...
often refers to a different language presented in 1951 by the
International Auxiliary Language Association
The International Auxiliary Language Association, Inc. (IALA) was an American organisation founded in 1924 to "promote widespread study, discussion and publicity of all questions involved in the establishment of an auxiliary language, together wi ...
(IALA). Advocates for IA currently use, among others, the name ''Academia pro Interlingua''.
Academia pro Interlingua
(IA), wiki in IALA's Interlingua for a current organization using the name
References
External links
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Discussiones
', the first journal of Academia pro Interlingua (1909–13) in the Wayback Machine
The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by Internet Archive, an American nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California. Launched for public access in 2001, the service allows users to go "back in ...
.
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International auxiliary languages
Constructed language organizations
1908 establishments
1939 disestablishments