Saturday, September 25, 2004

Interlingua

Also called �Latino Sine Flexione, � simplified form of Latin intended for use as an international second language. Interlingua was originally developed in 1903 by the Italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano, but lack of clarity as to what parts of Latin were to be retained and what were to be discarded led to numerous �dialects� of Interlingua, confusion, and its dying out among enthusiasts. In the late 1940s and