International auxiliary language

An International auxiliary language (shortly IAL or auxlang) is a language that is intended for communication between people who have different first languages.Herbert N. Shenton, 'An International Auxiliary Language', Proceedings: Twenty-Fifth Annual Convention of Rotary International (Chicago: Rotary International, 1934), p. 105

Languages of large societies over the centuries have almost reached the international level, for example Latin, Greek, Standard Arabic, Standard Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.Bodmer, Frederick. The loom of language and Pei, Mario. One language for the world.

Some people have turned to the idea of promoting an artificial or constructed language as a possible IAL, for example Esperanto, Ido and Interlingua.

 Significant auxiliary languages 
 pidgins - a simplified language used in Singapore, the Philippines, Polynesia and other places.Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Vol 3, eds. S. A. Wurm; Peter Mühlhäusler; Darrell T. Tyron (Berlin; New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1996), p. 519
 Mediterranean Lingua Franca - A Pidgin based on Romance languages.
 Tok Pisin -  A Pidgin based on the English language.
 Volapük - the first widely used constructed language, less popular after Esperanto was introduced.Esperanto, Interlinguistics, and Planned Language, ed. Humphrey Tonkin (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1997), p. 183 
 Esperanto - a constructed language with up to 2,000,000 speakers.Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Seventeenth edition, eds. M. Paul Lewis; Gary F. Simons; Charles D. Fennig (Dallas, TX: SIL International, 2014) online version
 Ido - a project of reformed Esperanto.
 Interlingua - a constructed language.
 Interlingue
 Basic English - A constructed language, a simplified form of English with reduced number of wordsLanguage, a Right and a Resource: Approaching Linguistic Human Rights, ed. Miklós Kontra (Budapest: Central European University Press, 1999), p. 26

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Category:Constructed languages
Category:Interlinguistics