Novial language

Novial was an artificial language devised by Otto Jespersen, a Danish linguist who had previously been involved in the Ido movement. It features a vocabulary based largely on the Germanic and Romance languages, and a grammar heavily influenced by English. The first introduction of Novial was in Jespersen's book An International Language in 1928, with an update in his dictionary, Novial Lexike, published two years later. Further modifications were proposed in the 1930s, but with Jespersen's death in 1943, it became dormant, although in the 1990s interest in Novial was resumed by many people.