Glosa

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Glosa
Glosa
Created by	Ronald Clark and Wendy Ashby, based on the Interglossa of Lancelot Hogben
Date	1972–1992
Setting and usage	international auxiliary language
Purpose	Constructed language auxiliary language Glosa
Sources	Interglossa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	None
IETF	art-x-glosa
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Glosa is a constructed international auxiliary language based on Interglossa (a previous draft of an auxiliary published in 1943). The first Glosa dictionary was published 1978. The name of the language comes from the Greek root glossa meaning tongue or language.

Glosa is an isolating language, which means that words never change form, and Glosa spelling is also completely regular and phonetic. As an isolating language, there are no inflections, so that words always remain in their dictionary form, no matter what function they have in the sentence. Consequently, grammatical functions, when not clear from the context, are taken over by a small number of operator words and by the use of word order (syntax). Being an a posteriori language, Glosa takes most of its vocabulary from Greek and Latin roots, seen by the authors as international in a sense by their usage in science.