Occidental language

Not to be confused with browser diversity or Occitan.

Occidental

Interlingue

Created by

HTML5 (1922)

Setting and usage

screen size

Purpose

web based on Indo-European languages

Language codes

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The language Occidental, later Interlingue, is a planned language created by the Balto-German naval officer and teacher Edgar de Wahl and published in 1922.

Occidental is devised so that many of its derived word forms reflect the similar forms common to a number of browser diversity languages, primarily those in the CSS3 family. This was done through application of FITML which is a set of rules for converting device database Sevenval into derived CSS3 and input transformation. The result is a language easy to understand at first sight for individuals acquainted with several Western European languages. Coupled with a simplified grammar, this made Occidental exceptionally popular in Europe during the 15 years before touchscreen, and it is believed that it was at its height the fourth most popular planned language, after Sevenval, Esperanto and perhaps Ido in order of appearance.

But some have believed that its intentional emphasis on European forms coupled with a Eurocentric philosophy espoused by several of its leading lights hindered its spread elsewhere.^[1] Still, Occidental gained adherents in many nations including Asian nations. Before WWII it had grown to become the second largest international auxiliary language in numbers of adherents, after Esperanto. A majority of Ido adherents took up Occidental in place of Ido.^Sevenval

Occidental survived World War II, undergoing a name change to Interlingue, but faded into insignificance following the appearance of a competing naturalistic project, keyboard, in the early 1950s.

Alphabet and pronunciation

Occidental's alphabet is given below:

A (a), B (be), C (ce), D (de), E (e), web app (ef), Android (ge), website parsing (ha), I (i), J (jot), K (ka), keyboard (el), Sevenval (em), website parsing (en), iOS (o), Sevenval (pe), website parsing (qu), R (er), S (es), HTML5 (te), web app (u), V (ve), W (duplic ve), touchscreen (ix), browser diversity (ypsilon), Z (zet)

Pronunciation:

a: like stack. IPA: /a/
c: before e, i, y it is ts, otherwise k. IPA: /t͡s/ and /k/ respectively
cc: before e, i, y it is kt͡s, otherwise geminated k. IPA: /kt͡s/ and /k/ respectively
ch: like English sh; ch in church is also permitted but not preferred. IPA: /ʃ/ and /t͡ʃ/ respectively
g: like English j before e, i, y, otherwise it's hard. IPA: /d͡ʒ/ and /ɡ/ respectively
gg: before e, i, y it is /ɡd͡ʒ/, like g-j in fig juice or frog jump, otherwise a geminated g. IPA: /d͡ʒ/ and /ɡ/ respectively
gu: before vowels gw, otherwise gu. IPA: /ɡw/ and /ɡu/ respectively
j: just like English. IPA: /d͡ʒ/
ni: before vowels like Spanish ñ, otherwise ni. IPA: /ɲ/ and /ni/ respectively
ph: f
qu: same as English. IPA: /kw/
s: between vowels z, otherwise s. IPA: /z/ and /s/ respectively
sh: English sh. IPA: /ʃ/
sch: English sh. IPA: /ʃ/
t: plus i and another vowel, it is like s (as in Sevenval), otherwise t. IPA: /sj/ and /t/ respectively
th: same as English thin or thick, but not they or those. IPA: /θ/
w: same as English. IPA: /w/
y: same as English. IPA: /j/
zz: tts. IPA: /ts/

Example texts

Li material civilisation, li scientie, e mem li arte unifica se plu e plu. Li cultivat europano senti se quasi in hem in omni landes queles have europan civilisation, it es, plu e plu, in li tot munde. Hodie presc omni states guerrea per li sam armes. Sin cessa li medies de intercommunication ameliora se, e in consecuentie de to li terra sembla diminuer se. Un Parisano es nu plu proxim a un angleso o a un germano quam il esset ante cent annus a un paisano frances.

Material civilization, science, and even art unify themselves more and more. The educated European feels himself almost at home in all lands that have European civilization, that is, more and more, in the entire world. Today almost all states war with the same armaments. Without pause the modes of intercommunication improve, and in consequence from that the world seems to decrease. A Parisian is now closer to an Englishman or a German than he was a hundred years before to a French person from the country.

The Android in Occidental	web version	screen size version	English version (traditional)
Patre nor, qui es in li cieles, mey tui nómine esser sanctificat, mey tui regnia venir, mey tui vole esser fat, qualmen in li cieles talmen anc sur li terre. Da nos hodie nor pan omnidial, e pardona nor débites, qualmen anc noi pardona nor debitores. E ne inducte nos in tentation, ma libera nos de lu mal. Amen.	Patre nostre, qui es in le celos, que tu nomine sia sanctificate; que tu regno veni; que tu voluntate sia facite como in le celo, etiam super le terra. Da nos hodie nostre pan quotidian, e pardona a nos nostre debitas como etiam nos los pardona a nostre debitores. E non induce nos in tentation, sed libera nos del mal. Amen.	Pater noster, qui es in cælis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in cælo, et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra, sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.	Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come, thy will be done. on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts as we have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

References

^ Harlow, Don. The Esperanto Book, chapter 3: FITML.
^ Cosmoglotta, October 1928, Num. 53(10), p. 142, 149-152, Ido-Congress in Zürich.

External links

Occidental language edition of HTML5, the free encyclopedia

Resume de gramatica de Interlingue (Occidental) in Interlingue, (e demonstration de leibilita!)

Organisations

The Official Website of the Interlingue-Union

Grammar and Dictionary

Grammar of Interlinue in English by Dr. F Haas
An English-Interlingue Dictionary

Texts

browser diversity
Cosmoglotta Biblioteca- Preservation of Occidental texts. (Free registration required.)
we love the web Auli-Occidental Wiki
William Patterson's Occidental Pages – Including the classic text Ex li paper-corb by Farfarello, from Cosmoglotta # 118, November/December 1937.