The Union Mundial pro Interlingua (UMI; World Interlingua Union) is a global organization that promotes

Interlingua Interlingua (; ISO 639 language codes ia, ina) is an international auxiliary language (IAL) developed between 1937 and 1951 by the American International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). It ranks among the most widely used IALs and is t ...

, an

international auxiliary language An international auxiliary language (sometimes acronymized as IAL or contracted as auxlang) is a language meant for communication between people from all different nations, who do not share a common first language. An auxiliary language is primaril ...

(IAL) published in 1951 by the

International Auxiliary Language Association The International Auxiliary Language Association, Inc. (IALA) was an American organisation founded in 1924 to "promote widespread study, discussion and publicity of all questions involved in the establishment of an auxiliary language, together wi ...

(IALA). UMI was founded on July 28, 1955, when the first International Interlingua Congress took place in

Tours Tours ( , ) is one of the largest cities in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Indre-et-Loire. The Communes of France, commune of Tours had 136,463 ...

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

. The UMI collaborates with the national Interlingua organizations and has a hand in publishing dictionaries, grammars and tutorials. It is a non-profit organization that now operates out of

Bilthoven Bilthoven is a village in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of De Bilt. It has a railway station with connections to Utrecht, Amersfoort and Baarn. It is home to the Netherlands National Institute for Public Health an ...

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

. The ''Executive Council'' performs the daily work of the UMI and currently consists of :*President: Barbara Rubinstein, Sweden :*Secretary-general: Sven Frank, Germany :*Vice-secretary: Martijn Dekker, Netherlands :*Treasurer: Alberto Mardegan, Italy The ''General Council'' establishes the policies of the UMI. It consists of fifteen individuals residing in Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe, South America, West Asia, and East Asia. Ferenc Jeszenszky, in Hungary, is Coordinator of the ''Linguistic Commission'' of the UMI. On August 3, 2006, the UMI was registered juridically by France as an international organization. This recognition allows the UMI to form international collaborations and to act in its own name as, for example, a juridical body. The

Union Interlinguiste de France The Union Interlinguiste de France (UIF: Interlinguistic Union of France), established in 1961, works to increase public knowledge and active use of Interlingua. It produces the magazine ''Unir'', written in French and Interlingua and also establish ...

helped to secure registration.

References

* "Factos del UMI,"

Panorama in Interlingua ''Panorama in Interlingua'' is the primary periodical for the language Interlingua, published bimonthly. It was first issued in January 1988. The magazine is based in Odense, Denmark, and is written completely in Interlingua and the activities of ...

, 2006, Issue 4, p. 3. * "UMI officialmente registrate in Francia,"

, 2006, Issue 4, p. 3. * "Union Mundial pro Interlingua,"

, 2006, Issue 4, p. 27.

External links

Union Mundial pro Interlingua

Union Interlinguiste de France

Societate Svedese pro Interlingua
{{Authority control Interlingua organizations International organisations based in the Netherlands 1955 establishments in France Organizations established in 1955