An International auxiliary language[A] (shortly IAL or auxlang) is a language that is intended for communication between people who have different first languages.[1]
Languages of large societies over the centuries have almost reached the international level, for example Latin, Greek, Standard Arabic, Standard Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.[2]
Some people have turned to the idea of promoting an artificial or constructed language as a possible IAL, for example Esperanto, Ido and Interlingua.[2]
- pidgins - a simplified language used in Singapore, the Philippines, Polynesia and other places.[3]
- Mediterranean Lingua Franca - A Pidgin based on Romance languages.
- Tok Pisin - A Pidgin based on the English language.
- Volapük - the first widely used constructed language, less popular after Esperanto was introduced.[4]
- Esperanto - a constructed language with up to 2,000,000 speakers.[5]
- Ido - a project of reformed Esperanto.
- Interlingua - a constructed language.
- Interlingue
- Basic English - A constructed language, a simplified form of English with reduced number of words[6]
- The term was used at least as early as 1908, by Otto Jespersen.
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