<p>On <a href="https://www.interlingua.com/interlingua-en/" rel="noreferrer">their site</a> it says:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Millions understand Interlingua &quot;at first sight&quot;. Speakers of Romance languages especially understand Interlingua immediately and almost effortlessly. Ideal for traveling!</p>
</blockquote>
<p>So it's the other way round: if you speak a Romance language, Interlingua will make sense to you because it contains many elements (eg vocabulary) from these languages. This does not, however, mean that you can necessarily understand any Romance language after learning Interlingua, though I assume there will be some benefit going both ways.</p>

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<p><strong>Yes. And also No.</strong><br>
Interlingua is certainly a &quot;simplified&quot; Romance language and much of the lexicon is shared with other Romance languages. But not all Romance languages are made alike. Romanian is pretty divergent. Sardinian is pretty conservative. I believe Interlingua has more in common with the &quot;central&quot; Romance languages, standard Italian and Spanish (Castillian).</p>
<p>I'm sure a speaker of Italian or Castillian would have as little difficulty with Interlingua as they would have had, a couple centuries ago with Lingua Franca. I think if you were to learn Interlingua to a high degree, you would find relatively straightforward Spanish and Italian texts to be comprehensible.</p>
<p>Let's find out for ourselves!</p>
<hr>
<p><strong>Interlingua</strong><br>
Nostre Patre, qui es in le celos,<br>
que tu nomine sia sanctificate;<br>
que tu regno veni;<br>
que tu voluntate sia facite<br>
super le terra como etiam in le celo.<br>
Da nos hodie nostre pan quotidian,<br>
e pardona a nos nostre debitas<br>
como nos pardona a nostre debitores,<br>
e non duce nos in tentation,<br>
sed libera nos del mal.</p>
<p><strong>Portuguese</strong><br>
Pai nosso, que estás no céu,<br>
Santificado seja o Vosso nome.<br>
Venha a nós o Vosso reino.<br>
Seja feita a Vossa vontade,<br>
Assim na terra como no céu.<br>
O pão nosso de cada dia nos dai hoje.<br>
Perdoai as nossas ofensas<br>
Assim como nós perdoamos a quem nos têm ofendido.<br>
Não nos deixeis cair em tentação,<br>
Mas livrai-nos do mal</p>
<p><strong>Mozarabic</strong><br>
Padre nuoso dal ciel<br>
sanctificadu sia al teu nomne<br>
venga a nos al teu reynu<br>
ed faya-se al tua voluntade<br>
ansi en al tierra quomo en al ciel.<br>
Al pane nuostru de cada dia da-nos-lu huoi<br>
e perdonad-nos al nuostras offensas<br>
quomo nos autrossi perdonamos al qui nos offended<br>
ed non nos layšes cadere in al tentatzione<br>
ed liberad-nos dal male</p>
<p><strong>Castillian</strong><br>
Padre nuestro que estás en el Cielo,<br>
santificado sea tu nombre,<br>
venga a nosotros tu Reino,<br>
hágase tu voluntad en la Tierra como en el Cielo,<br>
danos hoy nuestro pan de cada día,<br>
y perdona nuestras ofensas,<br>
como también nosotros perdonamos a los que nos ofenden,<br>
no nos dejes caer en la tentación,<br>
y líbranos del mal.</p>
<p><strong>Catalan</strong><br>
Pare nostre, que esteu en el cel,<br>
sigui santificat el vostre nom;<br>
vingui a nosaltres el vostre regne;<br>
faci´s la vostra voluntat,<br>
així en la terra com en el cel.<br>
El nostre pa de cada dia doneu-nos avui;<br>
i perdoneu les nostres culpes,<br>
així com nosaltres perdonem els nostres deutors;<br>
i no permeteu que caiguem en la temptació,<br>
ans deslliureu-nos del mal.</p>
<p><strong>Languedocien</strong><br>
Le nostre Paire që ess eïs cels <br>
sanctificat sia lo teus noms <br>
avenga lo teus regns <br>
et sia faita la tua voluntas <br>
sico ël cel è ë la tera <br>
è dona à nos ôi lo nostrë pa që ës sobrë causa <br>
è perdonna à nos lès nostrès dëoutès <br>
aissi co nos perdonan à nostrès dëouteïrès <br>
è no nos amenés en tentatio <br>
mes delioura nos dël mal.</p>
<p><strong>French</strong><br>
Notre Père qui es aux cieux,<br>
que ton Nom soit sanctifié,<br>
que ton règne vienne,<br>
que ta volonté soit faite<br>
sur la terre comme au ciel.<br>
Donne-nous aujourd'hui notre pain de ce jour.<br>
Pardonne-nous nos offenses,<br>
comme nous pardonnons aussi à ceux qui nous ont offensés.<br>
Et ne nous soumets pas à la tentation,<br>
mais délivre-nous du mal.</p>
<p><strong>Anglo-Norman</strong><br>
Li nostre Pere, qui es ciels,<br>
saintefiez soit li tuens uons;<br>
avigne li tuens regnes.<br>
Soit faite ta volonte, si comme ele est faite el ciel,<br>
si foit ele faite en terre.<br>
Nostre pain de chascun jor nos donne hui.<br>
Et pardone-nos nos meffais,<br>
si comme nos pardonons a cos qui maeffait nos ont.</p>
<p><strong>Provencal</strong><br>
Paire nostre, que iest els eels; <br>
ton nom sia sanctifficat. <br>
A nos veng-a lo teu reg-nat. <br>
En la terra faelia sia quo el eel voluntat tia. <br>
Lo pa nostre cotidia liuei nos dona dieus de ta ma. <br>
Remet so que nos te deuem, <br>
quo nos als autres remetem. <br>
De temptacio nos deffen, <br>
ens delivra de mal.</p>
<p><strong>Italian</strong><br>
Padre nostro che sei nei cieli,<br>
sia santificato il tuo Nome,<br>
venga il tuo Regno,<br>
sia fatta la tua Volontà<br>
come in cielo così in terra.<br>
Dacci oggi il nostro pane quotidiano,<br>
e rimetti a noi i nostri debiti<br>
come noi li rimettiamo ai nostri debitori,<br>
e non ci indurre in tentazione,<br>
ma liberaci dal Male.</p>
<p><strong>Sicilian</strong><br>
Patri nostru, ca siti nnô celu,<br>
Fussi santificatu lu nomu vostru.<br>
Vinissi imprescia lu regnu vostru,<br>
Fussi faciuta la vostra Divina Vuluntati,<br>
Comu nnô celu, d'accussì nnâ terra.<br>
Ni dati sta jurnata lu nostru panuzzu cutiddianu,<br>
E ni pirdunati li nostri piccati,<br>
D'accussì niàvutri li pirdunamu ê nostri dibbitura.<br>
E mancu ni lassati a cascari nnâ tintazzioni,<br>
Ma ni scanzati dû mali.</p>
<p><strong>Sardinian</strong><br>
Babbu nostru k’istas in sos kelos, <br>
santificadu siat su nòmene tou, <br>
benzat a nois su regnu tou <br>
e fatta siat sa voluntade tua <br>
comente in su kelu gai in sa terra. <br>
Su pane nostru de dogni die dàdenolu oe, <br>
perdona a nois sos peccados nostros <br>
comente nois perdonamus sos inimigos nostros, <br>
e non nos lesses ruer in tentatzione, <br>
ma lìberanos dae su male.</p>
<p><strong>Romanian</strong><br>
Tatăl nostru care eşti în ceruri,<br>
sfinţească-se numele Tău,<br>
vie împărăţia Ta, facă-se voia ta,<br>
precum în cer aşa şi pe pământ.<br>
Pâinea noastră cea de toate zilele,<br>
dă-ne-o nouă astăzi<br>
şi ne iartă nouă greşelile noastre<br>
precum şi noi iertăm greşiţilor noştri<br>
şi nu ne duce pe noi în ispită<br>
ci ne izbăveşte de cel rău.</p>
<p><strong>Classical Latin</strong><br>
Pater noster, qui es in caelis;<br>
sanctificetur nomen tuum;<br>
adveniat regnum tuum;<br>
fiat voluntas tua,<br>
sicut in caelo et in terra.<br>
Panem nostrum cotidianum da nobis hodie;<br>
et dimitte nobis debita nostra,<br>
sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris;<br>
et ne nos inducas in tentationem;<br>
sed libera nos a malo.</p>

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@DestructiveWolf - What kind of French do you speak that this one is so horribly incorrect? Anyway, this one accords with [official resources](https://eglise.catholique.fr/approfondir-sa-foi/prier/prieres/372214-notre-pere/), though does not appear to contain the "new translation" of the penultimate petition.  Do be aware that there are different dialects / forms / languages of French and quite possibly different formulations of the same prayer. I'd appreciate it if you could cite a link to the version you use, so I can review it!
elemtilas
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Oh, didn't know that Sicilian is so different from Italian.
USERNAME GOES HERE
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@VictorVosMottor - Tyranny of the National Language!  Yeah, I think most people (in the US, anyway) aren't even aware that the national languages in European countries aren't the only languages spoken in those countries. There are dozens of local languages & dialects (including some Greek) natively spoken in Italy. My plan with this answer was to present it as a kind of "language continuum"; I could easily have added scores more entries if I were to get into regional & local dialects!
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elemtilas
<p>No. Of course you won’t. You don’t just learn a language by staring at it. Like everything, learning a language takes time. I would recommend learning one of those languages.</p>

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Destructive Wolf
<p>You'd understand the gist, but it would be mainly from recognizing vocabulary roots - Interlingua isn't the best option for learning to read Romance languages due to its grammar being different from them. In my case I know Esperanto and I seem to understand just as much Italian and Neolatino as someone who knows Interlingua. I think Neolatino Romantica (Romance Neolatin) seems better than Interlingua for your purpose and will explain why.</p>
<p>The Latin-derived vocabulary in Interlingua is essentially identical to that of Neolatino. However compared to Neolatino, Interlingua has &quot;replaced&quot; a lot of its Latin vocabulary and Romance grammar with that of Germanic and Slavic languages, rendering Interlingua less effective for comprehending actual Romance languages.</p>
<p>At first glance, Interlingua seems practically identical to Neolatino:</p>
<p>Interlingua: Ma con interlingua io pote comprender ca. 6-70% de neolatino.</p>
<p>Neolatino: Mais con interlingua (èo) poto comprèndere ca. 60-70 % de neolatino.</p>
<p>Esperanto: Sed kun (l')interlingua (mi) povas kompreni ĉ. 60-70% da neolatino.</p>
<p>English: but with interlingua I can comprehend circa 60-70% of neolatino.</p>
<p>However when you dig deeper into it: The majority of Romance languages say stuff that sounds like &quot;I speak the French&quot; or &quot;These are the my children&quot; or &quot;I wash the hands (=I wash my own hands)&quot;. Romance languages have grammatical gender as well as stuff like the verb ending telling you which person (he, we, they, me...) is doing the action, and their adjectives match in gender and number with their nouns, among other things. In phrases like &quot;It's raining, it's snowing&quot; they don't use the word &quot;it&quot;.</p>
<p>Neolatino Romantica basically follows all of the above Romance rules, as it is solely based on Romance languages. In contrast, Interlingua is partially based on Germanic and Slavic languages, so it has no grammatical genders, doesn't match adjective number with noun number, uses &quot;the&quot; and &quot;it&quot; like English, has removed the personal endings from verbs, has removed several Romance verb forms (tenses and moods) entirely, and some of its vocabulary has been replaced with that of languages which aren't Romance ones. It also has some extra grammar which exist in Germanic languages like Swedish (reflexive pronouns etc) which don't exist in the same way in Romance languages.</p>
<p>So while you would be able to get the gist of many Romance texts with Interlingua, you would still be missing out on key information due to Interlingua lacking in Romance grammar. In the sense of learning Interlingua specifically to read Romance texts, it wouldn't be drastically more beneficial to learn Interlingua over another semi-Romance language such as Esperanto, because in both cases you would be mainly just coasting by due to recognizing vocabulary roots.</p>
<p>As an example, in Italian and Neolatino since verbs have specific forms for if &quot;I, you, they...&quot; are doing the action, you use the verb form alone and don't write the pronoun. Interlingua doesn't have this function, so when reading an Italian sentence via Interlingua you would be able to understand what the verb meant but not have any clue about who is doing the action.</p>
<p>So I feel like you would be able to get the gist of Romance languages with Interlingua, but that there are better options out there, including Neolatino.</p>
<p>As for why Interlingua is not popular - it is pretty popular for a constructed language, Windows 11 even has a keyboard layout available for it in the default Windows keyboard language options. The reason why it's not hugely popular is probably due to a few reasons which I commonly hear when people justify why they won't learn (or even hate) Esperanto, another constructed language. These are also reasons I hear for why people don't learn any second foreign language (other than English) during my work as an ESL teacher:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Schools, media, etc don't raise us to MacGyver language. Even dialects and sociolects are often frowned upon and made fun of in the media. People often see language more as social status than as what it really is - a tool for communication. When I was a kid in school, I got points off on my American essays for writing &quot;colour&quot; instead of &quot;color&quot;. In a world where language is seen as communication, colour would have gotten full points. Interlingua is running on the completely opposite principal, &quot;language is not social status, it's for communication&quot;.</p>
</li>
<li><p>In being an &quot;international language&quot;, people see Interlingua and similar languages as trying to replace English. Most non-native speakers these days spend 9 to 12 years in school learning English as a foreign language and continue learning it in adulthood. They are not only raised to think English has the best school, salary and business opportunities, but also that if they don't learn English they are a failure. They then see their 9-12 years of struggle as a badge of honor. At the same time, if they aren't very proficient in English, they believe they need to learn English first before anything else. So that kind of person would immediately ignore Interlingua because they believe English is superior.</p>
</li>
<li><p>There have been many academic studies which prove stuff like learning a simpler constructed language such as Esperanto causes the poorest of language students to rise to perform at the same level as the best-performing ones when learning a subsequent natural foreign language. And that learning a language with an easier orthography than English drastically improves the reading/writing ability and will to learn of native English speaking kids.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p>Thus languages like Interlingua would be fantastic to teach in schools as preparation for learning natural foreign languages like Spanish, and also as side study to improve English grammar skills. So we would assume languages like Interlingua could be promoted as such and be actually implemented in American schools, especially considering things like the USA's trend towards Spanish bilingualism, and many pockets of the USA having stuff like French Creole minority language groups.</p>
<p>However a major issue is that educators usually need to get explicit permission to teach a language and they also need to be state licensed in the specific language they will be teaching. It's extremely difficult, sometimes impossible, to even get licensed to teach a Native American language. One of the national tests you can use towards licensing, or in some cases college credit for language studies, is called ACTFL. This test lacks not only all constructed languages, it even lacks languages which historically had huge populations of speakers majorly influenced American culture, such as Yiddish. So there is no way to get licensed in Interlingua and you also can't get college credit for it. Stuff like these kinds of licensing and educational policies drastically reduce the amount of people who are going to hear about Interlingua or consider using and promoting it.</p>

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<ul>
<li>Seam to me you are reversing something that is not so reversible:</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>if may be true that who speak one or more Romance languages can easily
understand interlingua, is not exactly equal the reversed path; then is sure
interlingua is popular and useful.</p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li><p>Consider also learning Latin and some Spanish (also ancient Greek is nice... but hard, I know both in ex. and are very useful).</p>
</li>
<li><p>Latin is compatible with interlingua's learning and is useful to understand also very many terms, that are influenced by English and 'slang', in all languages; also the languages, you listed, are Latin-based except, perhaps (I'm not sure), Romanian.</p>
</li>
</ul>

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Romanian is Latin based as well, just with centuries of influence from Slavic languages.
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pvt-Tron
<p>Interlingua's official site claims that speakers of all Romance languages will immediately understand the language <strong>on paper</strong> when first exposed to it. Is this true? Can I really understand Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and French simply by learning a conlang?</p>
<p>If it is true, then why isn't it more popular?</p>

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That implies it is a subset of the Romance languages. Even if their claim is true, that doesn't mean that learning Interlingua could make you fluent in the Romance languages.
curiousdannii
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It sounds plausible for reading comprehension—already with the knowledge of Latin it is possible to get the rough contents of a text written in a Romance language, and Interlingua is closer to modern Romance than Latin. However, don't expect to get the fine points and there are notorious *false friends* than can carry you astray. Unfortunately, I have no data from serious studies, therefore only a comment.—PS: Listening comprehension or active language production are totally different things in this respect.
Sir Cornflakes
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It sounds to me that it's the other way round: as a speaker of French or Spanish, you can understand Interlingua on paper.
Oliver Mason
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Having studied a couple of Romance languages (plus Esperanto), I can read Interlingua and make some sense of most other written Romance languages, but by no means all of them.
Anton Sherwood
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Will I be able to read texts written in all Romance languages simply by learning Interlingua?
# Will I be able to read texts written in all Romance languages simply by learning Interlingua?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-10-07)

Interlingua's official site claims that speakers of all Romance languages will immediately understand the language **on paper** when first exposed to it. Is this true? Can I really understand Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and French simply by learning a conlang?

If it is true, then why isn't it more popular?

**Tags:** conlang-learning, interlingua

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: That implies it is a subset of the Romance languages. Even if their claim is true, that doesn't mean that learning Interlingua could make you fluent in the Romance languages.  
> **username_2**: It sounds plausible for reading comprehension—already with the knowledge of Latin it is possible to get the rough contents of a text written in a Romance language, and Interlingua is closer to modern Romance than Latin. However, don't expect to get the fine points and there are notorious *false friends* than can carry you astray. Unfortunately, I have no data from serious studies, therefore only a comment.—PS: Listening comprehension or active language production are totally different things in this respect.  
> **username_3**: It sounds to me that it's the other way round: as a speaker of French or Spanish, you can understand Interlingua on paper.  
> **username_4**: Having studied a couple of Romance languages (plus Esperanto), I can read Interlingua and make some sense of most other written Romance languages, but by no means all of them.  

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## 5 answers

### Answer by username_3 on 2020-10-08. Score: 9

On [their site](https://www.interlingua.com/interlingua-en/) it says:

> Millions understand Interlingua "at first sight". Speakers of Romance languages especially understand Interlingua immediately and almost effortlessly. Ideal for traveling!

So it's the other way round: if you speak a Romance language, Interlingua will make sense to you because it contains many elements (eg vocabulary) from these languages. This does not, however, mean that you can necessarily understand any Romance language after learning Interlingua, though I assume there will be some benefit going both ways.


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### Answer by username_5 on 2020-10-09. Score: 2

**Yes. And also No.**  
Interlingua is certainly a "simplified" Romance language and much of the lexicon is shared with other Romance languages. But not all Romance languages are made alike. Romanian is pretty divergent. Sardinian is pretty conservative. I believe Interlingua has more in common with the "central" Romance languages, standard Italian and Spanish (Castillian).

I'm sure a speaker of Italian or Castillian would have as little difficulty with Interlingua as they would have had, a couple centuries ago with Lingua Franca. I think if you were to learn Interlingua to a high degree, you would find relatively straightforward Spanish and Italian texts to be comprehensible.

Let's find out for ourselves!

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**Interlingua**  
Nostre Patre, qui es in le celos,  
que tu nomine sia sanctificate;  
que tu regno veni;  
que tu voluntate sia facite  
super le terra como etiam in le celo.  
Da nos hodie nostre pan quotidian,  
e pardona a nos nostre debitas  
como nos pardona a nostre debitores,  
e non duce nos in tentation,  
sed libera nos del mal.

**Portuguese**  
Pai nosso, que estás no céu,  
Santificado seja o Vosso nome.  
Venha a nós o Vosso reino.  
Seja feita a Vossa vontade,  
Assim na terra como no céu.  
O pão nosso de cada dia nos dai hoje.  
Perdoai as nossas ofensas  
Assim como nós perdoamos a quem nos têm ofendido.  
Não nos deixeis cair em tentação,  
Mas livrai-nos do mal

**Mozarabic**  
Padre nuoso dal ciel  
sanctificadu sia al teu nomne  
venga a nos al teu reynu  
ed faya-se al tua voluntade  
ansi en al tierra quomo en al ciel.  
Al pane nuostru de cada dia da-nos-lu huoi  
e perdonad-nos al nuostras offensas  
quomo nos autrossi perdonamos al qui nos offended  
ed non nos layšes cadere in al tentatzione  
ed liberad-nos dal male

**Castillian**  
Padre nuestro que estás en el Cielo,  
santificado sea tu nombre,  
venga a nosotros tu Reino,  
hágase tu voluntad en la Tierra como en el Cielo,  
danos hoy nuestro pan de cada día,  
y perdona nuestras ofensas,  
como también nosotros perdonamos a los que nos ofenden,  
no nos dejes caer en la tentación,  
y líbranos del mal.

**Catalan**  
Pare nostre, que esteu en el cel,  
sigui santificat el vostre nom;  
vingui a nosaltres el vostre regne;  
faci´s la vostra voluntat,  
així en la terra com en el cel.  
El nostre pa de cada dia doneu-nos avui;  
i perdoneu les nostres culpes,  
així com nosaltres perdonem els nostres deutors;  
i no permeteu que caiguem en la temptació,  
ans deslliureu-nos del mal.

**Languedocien**  
Le nostre Paire që ess eïs cels   
sanctificat sia lo teus noms   
avenga lo teus regns   
et sia faita la tua voluntas   
sico ël cel è ë la tera   
è dona à nos ôi lo nostrë pa që ës sobrë causa   
è perdonna à nos lès nostrès dëoutès   
aissi co nos perdonan à nostrès dëouteïrès   
è no nos amenés en tentatio   
mes delioura nos dël mal.

**French**  
Notre Père qui es aux cieux,  
que ton Nom soit sanctifié,  
que ton règne vienne,  
que ta volonté soit faite  
sur la terre comme au ciel.  
Donne-nous aujourd'hui notre pain de ce jour.  
Pardonne-nous nos offenses,  
comme nous pardonnons aussi à ceux qui nous ont offensés.  
Et ne nous soumets pas à la tentation,  
mais délivre-nous du mal.

**Anglo-Norman**  
Li nostre Pere, qui es ciels,  
saintefiez soit li tuens uons;  
avigne li tuens regnes.  
Soit faite ta volonte, si comme ele est faite el ciel,  
si foit ele faite en terre.  
Nostre pain de chascun jor nos donne hui.  
Et pardone-nos nos meffais,  
si comme nos pardonons a cos qui maeffait nos ont.

**Provencal**  
Paire nostre, que iest els eels;   
ton nom sia sanctifficat.   
A nos veng-a lo teu reg-nat.   
En la terra faelia sia quo el eel voluntat tia.   
Lo pa nostre cotidia liuei nos dona dieus de ta ma.   
Remet so que nos te deuem,   
quo nos als autres remetem.   
De temptacio nos deffen,   
ens delivra de mal.

**Italian**  
Padre nostro che sei nei cieli,  
sia santificato il tuo Nome,  
venga il tuo Regno,  
sia fatta la tua Volontà  
come in cielo così in terra.  
Dacci oggi il nostro pane quotidiano,  
e rimetti a noi i nostri debiti  
come noi li rimettiamo ai nostri debitori,  
e non ci indurre in tentazione,  
ma liberaci dal Male.

**Sicilian**  
Patri nostru, ca siti nnô celu,  
Fussi santificatu lu nomu vostru.  
Vinissi imprescia lu regnu vostru,  
Fussi faciuta la vostra Divina Vuluntati,  
Comu nnô celu, d'accussì nnâ terra.  
Ni dati sta jurnata lu nostru panuzzu cutiddianu,  
E ni pirdunati li nostri piccati,  
D'accussì niàvutri li pirdunamu ê nostri dibbitura.  
E mancu ni lassati a cascari nnâ tintazzioni,  
Ma ni scanzati dû mali.

**Sardinian**  
Babbu nostru k’istas in sos kelos,   
santificadu siat su nòmene tou,   
benzat a nois su regnu tou   
e fatta siat sa voluntade tua   
comente in su kelu gai in sa terra.   
Su pane nostru de dogni die dàdenolu oe,   
perdona a nois sos peccados nostros   
comente nois perdonamus sos inimigos nostros,   
e non nos lesses ruer in tentatzione,   
ma lìberanos dae su male.

**Romanian**  
Tatăl nostru care eşti în ceruri,  
sfinţească-se numele Tău,  
vie împărăţia Ta, facă-se voia ta,  
precum în cer aşa şi pe pământ.  
Pâinea noastră cea de toate zilele,  
dă-ne-o nouă astăzi  
şi ne iartă nouă greşelile noastre  
precum şi noi iertăm greşiţilor noştri  
şi nu ne duce pe noi în ispită  
ci ne izbăveşte de cel rău.

**Classical Latin**  
Pater noster, qui es in caelis;  
sanctificetur nomen tuum;  
adveniat regnum tuum;  
fiat voluntas tua,  
sicut in caelo et in terra.  
Panem nostrum cotidianum da nobis hodie;  
et dimitte nobis debita nostra,  
sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris;  
et ne nos inducas in tentationem;  
sed libera nos a malo.

> **Comments:**
> **username_5**: @DestructiveWolf - What kind of French do you speak that this one is so horribly incorrect? Anyway, this one accords with [official resources](https://eglise.catholique.fr/approfondir-sa-foi/prier/prieres/372214-notre-pere/), though does not appear to contain the "new translation" of the penultimate petition.  Do be aware that there are different dialects / forms / languages of French and quite possibly different formulations of the same prayer. I'd appreciate it if you could cite a link to the version you use, so I can review it!  
> **username_6**: Oh, didn't know that Sicilian is so different from Italian.  
> **username_5**: @VictorVosMottor - Tyranny of the National Language!  Yeah, I think most people (in the US, anyway) aren't even aware that the national languages in European countries aren't the only languages spoken in those countries. There are dozens of local languages & dialects (including some Greek) natively spoken in Italy. My plan with this answer was to present it as a kind of "language continuum"; I could easily have added scores more entries if I were to get into regional & local dialects!  

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### Answer by username_7 on 2020-11-12. Score: 2

No. Of course you won’t. You don’t just learn a language by staring at it. Like everything, learning a language takes time. I would recommend learning one of those languages.


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### Answer by username_8 on 2024-10-17. Score: 1

You'd understand the gist, but it would be mainly from recognizing vocabulary roots - Interlingua isn't the best option for learning to read Romance languages due to its grammar being different from them. In my case I know Esperanto and I seem to understand just as much Italian and Neolatino as someone who knows Interlingua. I think Neolatino Romantica (Romance Neolatin) seems better than Interlingua for your purpose and will explain why.

The Latin-derived vocabulary in Interlingua is essentially identical to that of Neolatino. However compared to Neolatino, Interlingua has "replaced" a lot of its Latin vocabulary and Romance grammar with that of Germanic and Slavic languages, rendering Interlingua less effective for comprehending actual Romance languages.

At first glance, Interlingua seems practically identical to Neolatino:

Interlingua: Ma con interlingua io pote comprender ca. 6-70% de neolatino.

Neolatino: Mais con interlingua (èo) poto comprèndere ca. 60-70 % de neolatino.

Esperanto: Sed kun (l')interlingua (mi) povas kompreni ĉ. 60-70% da neolatino.

English: but with interlingua I can comprehend circa 60-70% of neolatino.

However when you dig deeper into it: The majority of Romance languages say stuff that sounds like "I speak the French" or "These are the my children" or "I wash the hands (=I wash my own hands)". Romance languages have grammatical gender as well as stuff like the verb ending telling you which person (he, we, they, me...) is doing the action, and their adjectives match in gender and number with their nouns, among other things. In phrases like "It's raining, it's snowing" they don't use the word "it".

Neolatino Romantica basically follows all of the above Romance rules, as it is solely based on Romance languages. In contrast, Interlingua is partially based on Germanic and Slavic languages, so it has no grammatical genders, doesn't match adjective number with noun number, uses "the" and "it" like English, has removed the personal endings from verbs, has removed several Romance verb forms (tenses and moods) entirely, and some of its vocabulary has been replaced with that of languages which aren't Romance ones. It also has some extra grammar which exist in Germanic languages like Swedish (reflexive pronouns etc) which don't exist in the same way in Romance languages.

So while you would be able to get the gist of many Romance texts with Interlingua, you would still be missing out on key information due to Interlingua lacking in Romance grammar. In the sense of learning Interlingua specifically to read Romance texts, it wouldn't be drastically more beneficial to learn Interlingua over another semi-Romance language such as Esperanto, because in both cases you would be mainly just coasting by due to recognizing vocabulary roots.

As an example, in Italian and Neolatino since verbs have specific forms for if "I, you, they..." are doing the action, you use the verb form alone and don't write the pronoun. Interlingua doesn't have this function, so when reading an Italian sentence via Interlingua you would be able to understand what the verb meant but not have any clue about who is doing the action.

So I feel like you would be able to get the gist of Romance languages with Interlingua, but that there are better options out there, including Neolatino.

As for why Interlingua is not popular - it is pretty popular for a constructed language, Windows 11 even has a keyboard layout available for it in the default Windows keyboard language options. The reason why it's not hugely popular is probably due to a few reasons which I commonly hear when people justify why they won't learn (or even hate) Esperanto, another constructed language. These are also reasons I hear for why people don't learn any second foreign language (other than English) during my work as an ESL teacher:

1. Schools, media, etc don't raise us to MacGyver language. Even dialects and sociolects are often frowned upon and made fun of in the media. People often see language more as social status than as what it really is - a tool for communication. When I was a kid in school, I got points off on my American essays for writing "colour" instead of "color". In a world where language is seen as communication, colour would have gotten full points. Interlingua is running on the completely opposite principal, "language is not social status, it's for communication".
2. In being an "international language", people see Interlingua and similar languages as trying to replace English. Most non-native speakers these days spend 9 to 12 years in school learning English as a foreign language and continue learning it in adulthood. They are not only raised to think English has the best school, salary and business opportunities, but also that if they don't learn English they are a failure. They then see their 9-12 years of struggle as a badge of honor. At the same time, if they aren't very proficient in English, they believe they need to learn English first before anything else. So that kind of person would immediately ignore Interlingua because they believe English is superior.
3. There have been many academic studies which prove stuff like learning a simpler constructed language such as Esperanto causes the poorest of language students to rise to perform at the same level as the best-performing ones when learning a subsequent natural foreign language. And that learning a language with an easier orthography than English drastically improves the reading/writing ability and will to learn of native English speaking kids.

Thus languages like Interlingua would be fantastic to teach in schools as preparation for learning natural foreign languages like Spanish, and also as side study to improve English grammar skills. So we would assume languages like Interlingua could be promoted as such and be actually implemented in American schools, especially considering things like the USA's trend towards Spanish bilingualism, and many pockets of the USA having stuff like French Creole minority language groups.

However a major issue is that educators usually need to get explicit permission to teach a language and they also need to be state licensed in the specific language they will be teaching. It's extremely difficult, sometimes impossible, to even get licensed to teach a Native American language. One of the national tests you can use towards licensing, or in some cases college credit for language studies, is called ACTFL. This test lacks not only all constructed languages, it even lacks languages which historically had huge populations of speakers majorly influenced American culture, such as Yiddish. So there is no way to get licensed in Interlingua and you also can't get college credit for it. Stuff like these kinds of licensing and educational policies drastically reduce the amount of people who are going to hear about Interlingua or consider using and promoting it.


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### Answer by username_9 on 2024-11-13. Score: 0

* Seam to me you are reversing something that is not so reversible:

> if may be true that who speak one or more Romance languages can easily
> understand interlingua, is not exactly equal the reversed path; then is sure
> interlingua is popular and useful.

* Consider also learning Latin and some Spanish (also ancient Greek is nice... but hard, I know both in ex. and are very useful).
* Latin is compatible with interlingua's learning and is useful to understand also very many terms, that are influenced by English and 'slang', in all languages; also the languages, you listed, are Latin-based except, perhaps (I'm not sure), Romanian.

> **Comments:**
> **username_10**: Romanian is Latin based as well, just with centuries of influence from Slavic languages.  

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