Interspeech

Interspeech is a developed for use in international settings. Originally proposed in the late 19th century, Interspeech gained a level of international acceptance after the Second World War. Today it is used to greater or lesser extent in diplomacy and international commerce. It is common enough that it is taught as a language in many countries but it is not typically spoken or used in general conversation. Its purpose is "to encourage global commerce and cultural exchange, remove language as a barrier for participation in global society, and ensure the freedom of all nations from cultural hegemony through language."

Uses
While there are no formalized requirements for the use of Interspeech, some applications and reasons in which it may prove useful include:
 * Media
 * Lowers barriers to entry for independent artists, especially in less-developed or underserved areas
 * Allows the spread of ideas and art across borders much more easily
 * Better prevents linguistic barriers on online communications
 * Transportation
 * Useful for application in maritime, avionic, and extraterrestrial transportation
 * Eliminates the need for language blocs in international sea, air, and spaceports
 * Allows for greater ease of communication on international waters
 * Finance
 * Encourages no linguistic dominance in the global marketplace, thus reducing the international reliance on a currency or national economy, bolstering the global financial system and usage of the Intermark
 * Logistics
 * Removes the language barrier from logistics industries
 * Allows for easier access to world markets, especially for critical resources
 * Encourages greater degrees of global economic cooperation
 * Enables greater parity between nations and their companies to operate across borders, thus enhancing the flow of goods and reducing the effectiveness of punitive trade barriers between nations
 * Diplomacy
 * Allows for direct conversation between dignitaries and diplomats from around the world without the need for interpreters
 * Allows for an easier spread of political ideas and perspectives between nations, and better connecting between citizens
 * Has the potential to disarm bad-faith actors and ultranationalistic rhetoric by permitting a greater ease for communication between global cultures
 * Science
 * Standardizes notation for taxonomy, weights and measures, and more

History
Interspeech emerged from movements in the latter 19th and early 20th centuries for a language to help curb the influence of violent nationalism and aggressive posturing between nations and their peoples in a period of rising tensions. Proposed originally by a group of scholars from all inhabited continents at the University of Scrá in Salia in 1899 as the “Common Language for a Peaceful Century”, it originally saw little interest outside of and  circles, as well as communities of s and s.

The outbreak of the First World War in 1912 proved to be a source of some of the earliest documented usages of Interspeech in correspondence, as a cabal of diplomats used it shortly at the outset of hostilities to attempt to disarm the conflict from within each of the powers’ diplomatic corps. While this group originally saw no results, its passage between such high-profile political agents with little obstruction by tightening customs authorities would grow to portend its future use as the proposed “global common language” which would be first adopted by, and later by logistics to a limited extent in the postwar world of 1918. After the establishment of the Concert of Nations in 1928 and the drafting of the New Peace in 1929, which was written and read in Interspeech at the Grana Conference, it was enforced as the “new international language of diplomacy”.

However, it would prove to be none of these forces which became the main catalyst for its widespread usage as the global for international relations, commerce, research, and cultural exchange. Throughout the 1930s, the media of film and radio expanded worldwide. A number of nascent radio and film studios, seeking to attain a wider audience and elevate the media by associating them with international finance and diplomats, began producing in Interspeech. With its usage soon elevated from simply a useful intermediary for diplomats, financiers, and logistics companies, it became more popular among the general public, especially in the nascent middle classes of emerging powers following the First World War. In 1929, the amount of persons with a knowledge of Interspeech numbered only [x]. Thanks to the efforts of an ever-expanding global media industry, that knowledge expanded to [y] in 1939. This expansion of “conversational Interspeech” outside of its original uses sparked its teaching in many schools throughout the 1940s.

Following its increasing usage in academia and in many key industries across borders, the only limiting factor to its expansion in usage was the increasing disdain for the system of international relations enforced by the Concert of Nations through the punitive terms established under the New Peace and the First Grana Accords. In a number of nations, ultranationalist movements and anti-Concert of Nations conservatives would grow to prevent its expansion outside of its original intended uses. Ironically, this refusal by many movements to utilize Interspeech put them at a major disadvantage in the transmission of ideas, as interpreters to specific languages abroad were far outnumbered by those trained in translating from Interspeech. For a time, it was hoped that this linguistic isolation would prevent the rise of right-wing populism around the world. And for a time, this was true - but it was this, among many other factors bringing about isolation, it seemed, that would push the governments of these nations to take increasingly bold steps against the international order.

After the formal dismantling of the Concert of Nations in 1961, a number of the measures enacted by the organization were dismantled to prevent the same missteps of a heavy-handed enforcer of the international system. The Second Grana Accords, which transferred custodianship of international law to the far less involved World Forum, who strove to be an intermediary between nations, drew the future of the use of Interspeech into question. In addition to Interspeech, the documents were read over radio and/or televised in all former member-states of the Concert in their national language, while it was still read and written in Interspeech at the site of the conference. However, it proved to be far more culturally resilient after more than sixty years of ingraining itself in academia, diplomacy, and commerce.

Beyond this, one technology, having been given a massive burst of innovation following the war, had especially renewed the need for the knowledge of this intermediary language - commercial aviation. With a number of major docks around the world and merchant marine capacities deeply impacted by the conflict, the need for reliable freight transportation, as well as a less fuel-intensive means of transportation, airports expanded around the world. Interspeech ensured that the growing amount of international air traffic could be directed in a timely and safe manner, especially as jet engine technology removed the time necessary to avoid accidents or incidents.

The “Jet Age” of the 1960s and early 1970s proved to be as helpful to Interspeech as film was in the 1930s. Not only did pilots, air traffic controllers, and customs agents almost unanimously adopt it, but a significant minority of international travelers would pick it up as well, in order to more easily interact with the locales they enter, as common terms began to enter the lexicon of some establishments as tourism slowly was restored to its pre-war levels, and grew as the worldwide middle class expanded in kind with the economic recovery and shift away from the war economy.