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interlinguistics and some interlanguages

• Sanskrit in the royal courts and among the priesthood of India
  
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• koinë, a simplified Greek which unifies Hellenistic civlization
  
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• Chinook jargon in western North America
  
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• kiswahili in East Africa
  
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• Hausa in West Africa
  
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• Volapük in the Occident, and especially in Europe:
  an extremely artificial interlanguage devised in the 1800s by an Austrian named Zamenhof,
  who, thinking in German, devised a grotesque interlanguage of Byzantine complexity,
  which, nevertheless, some two million people learned because the need was so great.
  
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• Esperanto
  a simplified version of Volapük.
  
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• Neolatino
  a simplified version of Latin, intended to replace Esperanto which is quite barbaric and much more difficult thanis Neolatino.
  
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• Interlingua
  a semi-artificial interlanguage abstracted from eight natural languages
  (English, German, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin)
  in the 1930s by a committee of scholars, including Otto Jespersen,
  whom Sylvia Pankhurst convoked in New York City
  to apply the dictum of a Chilean interlinguist who said that
  the planetary interlanguage does not need to be devised,
  because it exists already, and needs only to be discovered.
  
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© 1998–2007 by Arden Schaeffer, 1932-2032?, author & webster
at URL http://www.nola.house.name/lang/en/i/idiom/interlanguages.html
Edition of 2007.06.04

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