100 years ago this month: the auxiliary language Occidental is released by Baltic German Edgar de Wahl in Reval (Tallinn, Estonia). Small in comparison to Esperanto, it still managed to grow into a vibrant community and the magazine Cosmoglotta had subscribers in 58 cities in Switzerland by 1945.
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The archives of Cosmoglotta can be [seen here](https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno-plus?aid=e0g&size=45) thanks to the Austrian National Library.
Also I and quite a few others speak it! AMA if curious about anything. I’ve spent quite a bit of time over the past few years [adding to the Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Interlingue&offset=&limit=500&action=history) on the language thanks to having the Cosmoglotta issues available like this.
Edit: also [here is a photo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingue#/media/File:First_issue_of_Cosmoglotta,_1922.jpg) of the first issue there taken in the library in La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland.
This is a lot nicer than most conlangs, it’s a shame it didn’t take off.
Wow, that is fabulously easy to read – easier than French, Italian, Latin, or Spanish on their own. Cool!
The only significant practical difference between this and Interlingua is that this is uglier.