Spoken in:
Estonia
Code:
occ
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
LINGUIST List
Retired:
July 18, 2007
Description:
This code has either been replaced by or merged into code:
ile
Brief Description:
Occidental was invented in the 1920's by an Estonian, Edgar von Wahl/de Wahl who was dissatisfied with the Esperanto movement, feeling that the language was not Western enough. Occidental diverges from its predecessors in that it is based essentially on Romance grammatical patterns, and is not entirely regular, in that -- as in natural languages -- more than one suffix can serve the same role.

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