Novial

Novial
novial
Created by	Otto Jespersen
Date	1928
Setting and usage	International auxiliary language
Purpose	Constructed language International auxiliary language Novial
Sources	Romance and Germanic languages; also Interlingue and Ido
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nov
Linguist List	nov
Glottolog	novi1234
Linguasphere	51-AAB-dc

Novial^[a] is a constructed international auxiliary language (IAL) for universal human communication between speakers of different native languages. It was devised by Otto Jespersen, a Danish linguist who had been involved in the Ido movement that evolved from Esperanto at the beginning of the 20th century, and participated later in the development of Interlingua. The name means 'new' + 'international auxiliary language'.

Its vocabulary is based largely on the Germanic and Romance languages while its grammar is influenced by English.

Novial was introduced in Jespersen's book An International Language in 1928.^[1] It was updated in his dictionary Novial Lexike in 1930,^[2] and further modifications were proposed in the 1930s, but the language became dormant with Jespersen's death in 1943.^[3] In the 1990s, with the revival of interest in constructed languages brought on by the Internet, some people rediscovered Novial.^{[citation needed]}

Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the help page).