interlingua
Americannoun
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an interlanguage.
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(initial capital letter) an artificial language developed between 1924 and 1951, based primarily upon the Romance languages, and intended mainly as a common international language for scientists.
noun
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(usually capital) an artificial language based on words common to English and the Romance languages
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any artificial language used to represent the meaning of natural languages, as for purposes of machine translation
Etymology
Origin of interlingua
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