International Auxiliary Language Association
Proper noun
Meaning
International Auxiliary Language Association
An association founded in 1924 to study the establishment of an international auxiliary language. In 1951, IALA presented Interlingua to the public by publishing the Interlingua-English Dictionary and Interlingua Grammar. Abbreviated IALA.
Examples
It was partly Peano's Interlingua that inspired the better-known Interlingua presented in 1951 by the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA).
He was the first Research Director of the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA), which presented the Interlingua conference in 1951.
Researchers at the International Auxiliary Language Association extracted words and affixes that they considered to be part of Interlingua's vocabulary.