Interlingua
in·ter·lin·gua
noun
1.
an artificial language proposed for use as an auxiliary international language; based on words common to English and the Romance languages
Origin
Coined possibly independently multiple times in multiple languages, but modern use derives from the Interlingua word. The word itself comes from Latin inter (“between”) + lingua (“language”).
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