Intal - Conlang Profile

Intal - Conlang Profile

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Language Name	Intal
Language Author	Erich Weferling
Year Began	1978
Site	Intal
Broken Link	No
Site Language	English
Language Type	international auxiliary language
Uniqueness	"One of the pamphlets I got was ... was the Standard-Grammar of the Auxiliary Language Intal by Erich Weferling. It was written entirely in Intal, yet I read it painlessly. It had the regularity of Ido (or Esperanto) but was as at-sight-readable as Interlingua. I really felt that this was the ideal IAL. It had a few idiosyncrasies like an Esperantine 'kv' in words that ought to have 'qu' and the 'c' being pronounced 'sh,' but these were quite minor to me. Intal became the language I pushed. And in fact I would still be a devotee of Intal if I had not found, in a used book store, Jespersen's book An International Language, where he defined Novial. I found that everything I liked about Intal had been anticipated by Jespersen, and so it is now Novial that I now favor." - Bruce Gilson
Language Sources	German languages. "Intal may follow German in distinguishing two meanings of English 'know'
Dictionary	No
Etymologies	No
Grammar	Yes
Sample Texts	Yes
Unique Script	No
Primer	No
Babel Text	No
Submitted By	Henri Gérard Wajsbrot
Date Submitted	Saturday, July 05, 2003
Updated By	Jeffrey Henning
Date Edited	Thursday, October 30, 2003
Description Of Update	Not a lot about INTAL has been published to the web yet. I dug up a few quotes and added them to the profile.
Date To Headline	Thursday, October 30, 2003