The Union Mundial pro Interlingua (UMI; World Interlingua Union) is a global organization that promotes Interlingua, 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 (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 prefecture of the department of Indre-et-Loire. The commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole metro ...

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 Heal ...

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 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
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