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Encyclopedia > Union Mundial pro Interlingua

The Union Mundial Pro Interlingua (World Interlingua Union), or UMI, is a global organization that promotes Interlingua. It was founded on July 28, 1955, when the first International Interlingua Congress took place in Tours, France. The UMI collaborates with the national Interlingua organizations and has a hand in publishing dictionaries, grammars and tutorials. It is a non-profit organization that now operates out of Bilthoven, Netherlands. Interlingua is an international auxiliary language (IAL) published in 1951 by the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tours is a city in France, the préfecture (capital city) of the Indre-et-Loire département, on the lower reaches of the river Loire, between Orléans and the Atlantic coast. ... Bilthoven is one of six villages in the muncipality of the bilt stituated in the middle of the Netherlands. ...


The Executive Council performs the daily work of the UMI and currently consists of

  • President: Barbara Rubinstein, Sweden
  • Secretary-general: Petyo Angelov, Bulgaria
  • Vice-secretary: Piet Cleij, Netherlands
  • Treasurer: Alberto Mardegan, Italy

The General Council establishes the policies of the UMI. It consists of fifteen individuals residing in Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe, South America, West Asia, and East Asia. Ferenc Jeszenszky, in Hungary, is Coordinator of the Linguistic Commission of the UMI. Piet Cleij (b. ...


On August 3, 2006, the UMI was registered juridicially by France as an international organization. This recognition allows the UMI to form international collaborations and to act in its own name as, for example, a juridicial body. The Union Interlinguiste de France helped to secure registration.


References

Panorama in Interlingua is the primary periodical for the language Interlingua, published bimonthly. ... Panorama in Interlingua is the primary periodical for the language Interlingua, published bimonthly. ... Panorama in Interlingua is the primary periodical for the language Interlingua, published bimonthly. ...

External links

  • Official homepage
  • Union Interlinguiste de France

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Interlingua in interlingua: Informationes variate in e sur interlingua (1329 words)
Vos anque trovara in iste sito un curso de 18 lectiones con multe textos pro lectura sur diverse themas como le ecologia e le historia del seculo XX (clicca sur [Curso]).
E si vos vole developpar un cognoscimento active de interlingua pro scriber lo, vos potera studiar plus intensivemente le ressources de iste sito, que es un grande anthologia de textos semanticamente ric e facile a comprender.
E in le sito del Union Mundial de Interlingua, vos videra in su prime pagina e in su ligamines suggestiones pro practicar interlingua trans le rete international electronic.
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Interlingua is designed to be a combination of this pre-existing vocabulary with a minimalist grammar, created in hopes that people exposed to the control languages would find it readily understandable.
Interlingua may be the second-most spoken international auxiliary language (IAL) after Esperanto, although the estimated number of speakers overlaps with that of Ido.
Interlingua supporters point out that Esperanto, despite being based on slavic, germanic, and romance languages, has some of its strongest communities in China and Japan, where the local languages are totally unrelated to the Indo-European languages.
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