International Auxiliary Language Association

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The neutral International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA; German: Internationale Hilfssprachengesellschaft) was founded in New York a. a. Co-founded by the patroness and Esperanto speaker Alice Vanderbilt Morris with the aim of creating the scientific basis for the selection of an existing planned language or the fusion of already existing planned languages ​​such as Esperanto (1887), Latino sine flexione (1903), Ido (1907), Esperanto II ( 1910), Occidental (1922) and Novial (1928).

Initially, the aim was not to develop your own planned language . After IALA did not consider any of the planned languages ​​examined to be suitable or the representatives of the various planned languages ​​could not agree on a common planned language, IALA decided in 1934 to develop its own planned language, which was published in 1951 under the name Interlingua . In 1953 IALA disbanded and became part of the Interlingua department in the Science Service. It was not until after the Second World War that English became the world's most important language as the language of communication .

prehistory

As a result of the increase in international relations, the problem of international understanding became more and more burning from the middle of the 19th century. The creators of the world aid languages ​​wanted to show a way out and therefore placed value on easy learnability, high active and passive language skills, internationality and neutrality in the sense of no people's language.

As early as 1907, the first attempt by science to agree on a single one among the multitude of planned languages ​​had failed. Still under the impression of the First World War , the next impulse came from the Research Corporation , which held a conference on the question of planned languages ​​in Brussels in 1919, with a view to the establishment of the League of Nations in 1920. Frederick Gardner Cottrell , the founder of the Research Corporation and later a long-time employee of IALA, was then able to win Alice Vanderbilt Morris and her husband, who later became the US ambassador to Belgium, for permanent support of a scientific institution. In 1924 IALA was legally founded in New York as a non-profit organization .

Founding members

A selection of the founding members:

purpose

The purpose of IALA was to establish a planned language, which is taught as a medium for the exchange of ideas and for international understanding between people with different mother tongues worldwide by every educational system. Initially, it was not about developing your own planned language, but rather about developing scientific principles and criteria.

Involved

A selection of the participating scientists:

Research work

Until Great Britain entered World War II, the institute was located at the University of Liverpool. After 1939 the headquarters were moved to New York.

IALA received most of its financial support from Alice Vanderbilt Morris and her family. Other sources were: Carnegie Corporation, Rockefeller Foundation , Research Foundation, etc. There are no precise figures about the number of employees. André Martinet speaks in an interview about his work as director for IALA from 1946 to 1948 with two departments plus administration. Alexander Gode's department consisted of 45 people and 10 people were responsible for administration.

Conferences

IALA held several international conferences between 1930 and 1948. Among the participating linguists and interested parties were Otto Jespersen , Eugen Wüster , Charles Kay Ogden , Albert Debrunner , Edmond Privat ( Esperanto ), Edgar de Wahl ( Occidental ), René de Saussure (Esperanto II), Siegfried Auerbach ( Ido ) and Eleanor Roosevelt , wife of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt . Giuseppe Peano , the author of the Latino sine flexione , was prevented from leaving the country by fascist Italy under Mussolini .

Publications

  • IALA: General Report 1945 , New York 1945

literature

  • EP Gopsill: International Languages. A matter for interlingua . British Interlingua Society, Sheffield 1990, ISBN 0-9511695-6-4 .
  • Blanke, Detlev: International planned languages. An introduction . Akademie Verlag, 1985, ISSN  0138-550X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interlingua versus Esperanto Die Zeit of October 18, 1951 (accessed October 7, 2014).
  2. ↑ a b c d e F.P. Gopsill, Brian C. Sexton: Le historia antenatal de Interlingua , In: Historia de Interlingua . On: Union Mundial pro Interlingua , accessed on November 16, 2015 (ia).
  3. ^ A b Peter Liebig: On the structure and development of Interlingua. In: Interlinguistic information from the Society for Interlinguistics. Supplement 7, Berlin, 2001; ISSN  1432-3567 . P. 62
    ( excerpt online , PDF; 820 kB), accessed on November 15, 2015.
  4. ↑ About the collection for planned languages ( memento of the original from October 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On: Austrian National Library , accessed on November 16, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.onb.ac.at
  5. ^ Louis Couturat , Otto Jespersen , Richard Lorenz , Wilhelm Ostwald , Leopold Pfaundler : International language and science. Considerations on the introduction of an international language into science. Translation by FG ​​Donnan. Constable, London 1910, pp. 11-25.
  6. ↑ Union Mundial pro Interlingua: Biographias: Le vitas detra interlingua , accessed on November 16, 2015 (ia)
  7. ↑ IALA: Former Associates ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: General Report 1945 . On: Association Finlandese pro Interlingua , accessed November 16, 2015 (en).  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.interlingua.fi
  8. ↑ IALA: Work in Liverpool and New York ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: General Report 1945 . On: Association Finlandese pro Interlingua , accessed November 16, 2015 (en).  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.interlingua.fi
  9. ^ Alix Potet: Interview with André Martinet . In Historia de Interlingua , on: website of Union Mundial pro Interlingua , accessed on November 16, 2015 (ia).
  10. ↑ Conferentias de IALA ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Historia de Interlingua . On: Association Finlandese pro Interlingua , accessed on November 16, 2015 (ia)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.interlingua.fi
  11. ↑ IALA: Participants of IALA's Meetings ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In. General Report 1945 . On: Association Finlandese pro Interlingua , accessed November 16, 2015 (en). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.interlingua.fi
  12. ↑ IALA: General Report 1945 ( Memento of the original dated July 2, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On: Association Finlandese pro Interlingua , accessed November 16, 2015 (en).  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.interlingua.fi