The language Occidental, later Interlingue, is a planned language created by the Baltogerman naval officer and teacher Edgar de Wahl and published in 1922. Edgar de Wahl (or von Wahl), the creator of Interlingue, was born in Olwiopol, Russia (now Pervomaysk, Ukraine) on August 11, 1867 (by the Julian calendar, August 23 on the Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... An international auxiliary language (sometimes abbreviated as IAL or auxlang) is a language used (or to be used in the future) for communication between people from different nations who do not share a common native language. ... A constructed or artificial language — known colloquially as a conlang — is a language whose phonology, grammar, and/or vocabulary have been devised by an individual or small group, instead of having naturally evolved as part of a culture. ... The Indo-European languages comprise a family of several hundred related languages and dialects [1], including most of the major languages of Europe, the Americas as well as many spoken in the Indian subcontinent (South Asia), the Iranian plateau (Southwest Asia), and Central Asia. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2:1998 Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 2: Alpha-3 code Twenty-two of the languages have two three-letter codes: a code for bibliographic use (ISO 639-2/B) a code for terminological use (ISO 639-2/T). ... ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ... The language Occidental, later Interlingue, is a planned language created by the Estonian naval officer and teacher Edgar de Wahl and published in 1922. ... Occidental means generally western. It is a traditional designation (especially when capitalized) for anything belonging to the Occident or West — the western part of the classical world (Europe) and the New World, and especially of its society. ... For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words see here. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone meaning sound, voice) is the study of sounds and the human voice. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... This chart shows concisely the most common way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is applied to represent the English language. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... A constructed or artificial language — known colloquially as a conlang — is a language whose phonology, grammar, and/or vocabulary have been devised by an individual or small group, instead of having naturally evolved as part of a culture. ... Edgar de Wahl (or von Wahl), the creator of Interlingue, was born in Olwiopol, Russia (now Pervomaysk, Ukraine) on August 11, 1867 (by the Julian calendar, August 23 on the Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ...

Occidental is devised with great care to ensure that many of its derived word forms reflect the similar forms common to a number of Western European languages. This was done through application of de Wahl's rule which is actually a small set of rules for converting verb infinitives into derived nouns and adjectives. The result is a language relatively easy to understand at first sight for individuals acquainted with several Western European languages. Coupled with a simplified grammar, this made Occidental exceptionally popular in Europe during the 15 years before World War II, and it is believed that it was at its height the fourth most popular planned language, after Volapük, Esperanto and perhaps Ido in order of appearance. A common understanding of Western Europe in modern times. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... In grammar, the infinitive is the form of a verb that has no inflection to indicate person, number, mood or tense. ... In English, a noun or noun substantive is a lexical category which can co-occur with (in)definite articles and attributive adjectives, and function as the head of a noun phrase. ... An adjective is a part of speech that modifies a noun or a pronoun, usually by describing it or making its meaning more specific. ... Combatants Allied Powers: United Kingdom France Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Axis Powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Charles de Gaulle Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33... Volapük is a constructed language, created in 1879–1880 by Johann Martin Schleyer, a Roman Catholic priest in Baden, Germany. ... Look up Esperanto in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Ido (pronounced ) is a constructed language that was created to become a universal second language for speakers of different linguistic backgrounds, easier to learn than any ethnic language. ...

But some have believed that its intentional emphasis on European forms coupled with a somewhat Eurocentric philosophy espoused by several of its leading lights hindered its spread elsewhere. Yet, Occidental gained adherents in many nations including Oriental nations. Before WWII it had grown to become the second largest IAL in numbers of adherents, after Esperanto. Esperantists at the time claimed Occidental had at least 2,000,000 adherents. Also, the majority of the Ido adherents took up Occidental in place of Ido. [Cosmoglotta], Oct. 1928, Num. 53(10), p. 142, 149-152, Ido-Congress in Zürich.

Occidental survived World War II, undergoing a name change to Interlingue, but gradually faded into insignificance following the appearance of a competing naturalistic project, Interlingua, in the early 1950s. Interlingua is an international auxiliary language (IAL) published in 1951 by the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). ... // Recovering from World War II and its aftermath, the economic miracle emerged in West Germany and Italy. ...

Alphabet and pronunciation

The alphabet of Occidental is:

Pronunciation: Look up A, a in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up B, b in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Also, due to technical limitations, C# redirects here. ... Look up D, d in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up E, e in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up F, f in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up G, g in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up H, h in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up I, i in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... J# redirects here for technical reasons; see J Sharp. ... Look up K, k in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up L, l in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up M, m in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up N, n in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up O, o in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up P, p in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Q, q in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up R, r in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up S, s in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see T (disambiguation). ... U is the twenty-first letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... Look up V, v in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up W in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see X (disambiguation). ... Look up Y, y in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Z, z in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

• a - like father
• c - before e, i, y it is ts, otherwise k
• cc - before e, i, y it is kts, otherwise geminated k
• ch - like English ch in church
• g - like English j before e, i, y, otherwise it's hard
• gg - like English j beforee, i, y , otherwise a geminated g
• gu - before vowels gw, otherwise gu
• j - just like English
• ni - before vowels like Spanish ñ, otherwise ni
• ph - f
• qu - same as English
• s - between vowels z, otherwise s
• sh - English sh
• sch - English sh
• t - plus i and another vowel, it is like s, otherwise t
• th - same as English
• w - same as English
• y - same as English
• zz - tts

Example texts

Li material civilisation, li scientie, e mem li arte unifica se plu e plu. Li cultivat europano senti se quasi in hem in omni landes queles have europan civilisation, it es, plu e plu, in li tot munde. Hodie presc omni states guerrea per li sam armes. Sin cessa li medies de intercommunication ameliora se, e in consecuentie de to li terra sembla diminuer se. Un Parisano es nu plu proxim a un angleso o a un germano quam il esset ante cent annus a un paisano frances.

Li Patre nor, the Lord's Prayer, in Interlingue (ex Occidental): Representation of the Sermon on the Mount The Lords Prayer (Greek: Η Κυριακή Προσευχή, transliterated as i Kiriakí Prosevhí) (Latin: Oratio Dominica), sometimes also known amongst English speakers as the Pater Imon, the Pater Noster or the Our Father, is probably the best-known prayer in Christianity. ...

Patre nor, qui es in li cieles.

Mey tui nómine esser sanctificat,

mey tui regnia venir.

Mey tui vole esser fat

qualmen in li cieles talmen anc sur li terre.

Da nos hodie nor pan omnidial,

e pardona nor débites,

qualmen anc noi pardona nor debitores.

E ne inducte nos in tentation,

ma libera nos de lu mal.

Amen.

See also

• Indo-European languages
• Resume de gramatica de Interlingue (Occidental) in Interlingue, (e demonstration de leibilita!)
• Lorem ipsum & Li Europan lingues
• Interlingua

The Indo-European languages comprise a family of several hundred related languages and dialects [1], including most of the major languages of Europe, the Americas as well as many spoken in the Indian subcontinent (South Asia), the Iranian plateau (Southwest Asia), and Central Asia. ... Li Europan lingues is a quote in Occidental, an international auxiliary language devised by Edgar von Wahl in 1922. ... Interlingua is an international auxiliary language (IAL) published in 1951 by the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). ...

External links

• Cosmoglotta Biblioteca- Preservation of Occidental texts
• A wiki with Occidental info.Auli-Occidental Wiki
• Interlingue Union SiteInterlingue Union
• William Patterson's Occidental Pages - Including the classic text Ex li paper-corb by Farfarello, from Cosmoglotta # 118, Nov/Dec 1937.

Occidental language edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia