Germanic IAL

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Germanic IAL, or Germanic International Auxiliary Language, is a constructed language (or "conlang"), which has been based primarily on the Germanic languages. This is unlike languages such as Interlingue or Esperanto which are derived largely from the Romance languages. Another term for IAL is "auxlang" (from "Auxiliary Language") and "Planned Language."

Unlike IALs based on the Romance languages (Interlingue, Esperanto, Ido, Latino Sine Flexione, Interlingua), there are relatively very few based on the Germanic languages. This is mainly because the influence of Latin-based languages, historically and contemporaneously, is deemed to be far higher than that of the Germanic languages. However, due to the relatively large influence of English, which incidentally incorporates a large deal of Romance vocabularly, most IALs tend to feature some English influence (particularly in the area of grammar).

[edit] Notable Germanic IALs

The most prominent IAL based mostly on the Germanic languages is Folkspraak. It is an unfinished project. Another contemporary Germanic IAL is Aaron chapman's Nordien, however the community of this IAL is unknown. Tutonish, made in the late nineteenth century by Elias Molee, is a famous historical example of a Germanic IAL.