Interglossa > LINGUIST List Language Search
Name:
Interglossa
Type:
Language
Spoken in:
United Kingdom
Code:
igs
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
LINGUIST List
Families:
Constructed Language Family
Parent Subgroup:
Constructed Languages; Artificial language (clan)
Brief Description:
Interglossa was the work of Prof. Lancelot Hogben of Great Britain, who devised a language whose vocabulary consists entirely of roots from Greek yet whose grammar was borrowed from Chinese. Moribund by the 1960's, it was revived in 1972 by Ronald Clark and Wendy Ashby, who built the new language Glosa upon it.

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