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Language code: ie

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ie

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The table below provides technical details for the Interlingue language, designated by the ie code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

ie

Name

Official

Interlingue

Native

Interlingue

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Related languages
InterlinguaNovialLatino sine FlexioneLingua Franca Nova
Key facts
Created by Edgar de Wahl in 1922 as "Occidental" and renamed Interlingue in 1949Employs the De Wahl Rule to generate regular derivations from a largely Romance–Germanic lexiconDesigned for instant intelligibility to Western European language speakersSaw a decline after the 1950s but has enjoyed an online revival since the late 1990sWritten with the basic Latin alphabet and avoids diacritics or special characters
Sample phrase

Salute, como vu sta?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

Interlingue, originally named Occidental, is an international auxiliary language created by Edgar de Wahl in 1922. It was renamed to Interlingue in 1947. It is written using the Latin script.

Language presence globally

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Interlingue speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

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