peoplean

Peoplean is a constructed language created to facilitate communication among speakers of diverse natural languages. The project began in 2018 under the umbrella of the Interlingua Initiative, a consortium of linguists and language enthusiasts dedicated to developing practical auxiliary languages. The name “Peoplean” reflects the language’s intended purpose of serving the people, blending functionality with cultural neutrality.

The grammar of Peoplean is intentionally regular and highly transparent. It adopts a subject‑verb‑object (SVO) word order and omits grammatical gender, making it easier for learners accustomed to Romance, Germanic, or Slavic languages. Its phonology contains 17 consonants and eight vowels, all of which are common to major language families, and the writing system uses a Latin-based alphabet augmented with diacritics to represent a few labialised consonants.

Vocabulary development in Peoplean follows a semantic layering approach, starting with everyday terms before incorporating specialized terminology. This layered strategy allows the language to be used for basic civic communication while offering the possibility of expansion into technical domains. Because it emphasizes regularity and simplicity, Peoplean has been adopted by several pilot community projects in Scandinavia and East Asia, and it continues to evolve through an open‑source contributor model.