Editing Interlingua (section)

== Community ==
It is not certain how many people have an active knowledge of Interlingua.{{sfn|Gopsill|1990}} Most constructed languages other than [[Esperanto]] have very few speakers.{{sfn|Gopsill|1990|p=46}} The Hungarian census of 2001, which collected information about languages spoken, found just two people in the entire country who claimed to speak Interlingua.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nepszamlalas2001.hu/hun/kotetek/18/tables/load2_39_1.html|title=18. Demográfiai adatok – Központi Statisztikai Hivatal|website=www.nepszamlalas2001.hu|lang=hu|trans-title=Demographic Data – Central Statistical Office|access-date=2025-01-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180617000434/http://www.nepszamlalas2001.hu/hun/kotetek/18/tables/load2_39_1.html |archive-date=2018-06-17|url-status=live}}</ref>

Advocates say that Interlingua's greatest advantage is that it is the most widely ''understood'' [[international auxiliary language]] besides [[Latino sine flexione|Interlingua (IL) de A.p.I.]]{{sfn|Blandino|1989}} by virtue of its naturalistic (as opposed to schematic) grammar and vocabulary, allowing those familiar with a Romance language, and educated speakers of English, to read and understand it without prior study.{{sfn|Blandino|1989}}

Interlingua web pages include editions of [[Wikipedia]] and Wiktionary, and a number of periodicals, including ''[[Panorama in Interlingua]]'' from the Union Mundial pro Interlingua (UMI).

Every two years, the UMI organizes an international conference in a different country. In the year between, the Scandinavian Interlingua societies co-organize a conference in Sweden, as a number of Interlingua speakers are in Scandinavia. National organizations such as the Union Brazilian pro Interlingua also organize regular conferences.{{sfn|Breinstrup|2006c}}

Interlingua is taught in some high schools and universities, sometimes as a means of teaching other languages quickly, presenting [[interlinguistics]], or introducing an international vocabulary.{{sfn|Breinstrup|2006c}}{{sfn|Stenström|1991a}}{{sfn|Stenström|1991b}} A two-week course was taught at the [[University of Granada]] in [[Spain]] in 2007, for example.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://canal.ugr.es/prensa-y-comunicacion/notas-de-prensa/curso-introduccion-a-la-interlinguistica-interlingua-hablado-y-escrito/|title=Curso «Introducción a la Interlingüística. Interlingua hablado y escrito»|lang=es|date=2007-11-07|website=Universidad de Granada|access-date=2025-01-16}}</ref>

{{As of|2019}}, [[Google Keyboard]] supports Interlingua.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-12-19|title=Google Gboard keyboard now supports more than 500 languages and 40 writing systems|url=https://www.techwarrant.com/jarig-gboard-keyboard-supports-more-than-500-languages-%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8Band-40-fonts/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-10-28|website=TechWarrant|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211205084704/https://www.techwarrant.com/jarig-gboard-keyboard-supports-more-than-500-languages-%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8Band-40-fonts/|archive-date=2021-12-05}}</ref>