When de Wahl announced his language in 1922, it was almost but not quite done. The other nickname for Auli is proto-Occidental (which means 'old Occidental'). At the time he called it Auli, or 'auxiliary language' (auxiliary means helpful). Between 19 he started experimenting with his own language, and it changed a lot.

However, de Wahl started making the language long before this. Main article: History of Interlingue How Occidental (Interlingue) started ĭe Wahl announced his language in the magazine Kosmoglott in 1922, and this is where the Occidental activities can be seen. Louis Couturat, the creator of Ido, wrote the same thing in 1903, and called it a paradox: 'The international words are not regular, and the regular words are not international.' The language that de Wahl made had a goal to be a language that was both regular and natural at the same time. The difficulty was that creators had to choose between being regular or looking natural. Others, like Latino sine flexione and Idiom Neutral, are called naturalistic because they try to look like natural languages. Some of them, like Esperanto and Ido, are called schematic because they follow their own design even if the words look more artificial. There were already many types of constructed languages during de Wahl's time. In 1949 the users of Occidental voted to change the name to Interlingue. He decided to create a language called 'Occidental'.

For example, the change of d in the word exploder (to explode) to s (making explo sion and explo siv) is a regular change when following this rule.ĭe Wahl was not happy with Esperanto. De Wahl made a rule called De Wahl's rule that made changing verbs to nouns easier and more regular. Interlingue looks a lot like languages in the Romance language family: French, Spanish, Italian, and so on. He spoke German, Russian, Estonian and French since he was a child and had natural ability in languages. De Wahl was from the city of Tallinn in Estonia, which was in the Russian Empire but later became its own country. Edgar de Wahl, one of the first Esperantists, created it.

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