In the Museum of World Languages located in the SISU university campus in Sonjiang (Shanghai International Studies University) a section is dedicated to the International auxilary languages (IALs). Various scholars who have studied this topic are cited, especially Leibnitz. ‘The more influential IALs include Solresol, Volapük, Ido, and Interlingua, and perhaps the most famous is Esperanto’, so we read.
This lecture aims to give more information and to propose some reflections on the Interlingua created by Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932), famous Italian mathematician and a founder of symbolic logic. Peano created an artificial language called ‘latino sine flexione’ (1903), based on Latin, a written language of international communication between mathematicians, perhaps the least artificial language among those in competition, as Willard Van Orman Quine says.