included in Interlingua. Early internationalisms, such as those from French and German, tend to be part of Interlingua's basic vocabulary. Later internationalisms, often from English, tend to be Interlingua loanwords. Among Asian languages, Arabic most often provides basic vocabulary, while Japanese contributes recent loanwords. Examples Academy Airport Ananas (pineapple in English) Antenna Athlete Atom Automobile Ballerina Bar Blog Bus Cabin Cable Centre (Center) Chocolate Coffee Colony Comedy Computer Copy Corridor Coupon Design Dictator Diploma Doctor Gorilla Harmony Hospital Hotel Inspection International Internet League Literature Machine Magnet Margarine Marmalade Medal Menu Metro Microphone Microscope Motor Number OK Olympiad Operation Party Pedal Pistol Police Politics Psychology Radio Register Sandal Sardine Satan Sauna Shock Signal Sport Station Stress Studio Taboo Taxi Telephone Telescope Television Tennis Test Tokamak Tomahawk Tractor Transport Tsunami Visa See also International scientific vocabulary Interlingua Hybrid word Classical compound Greek and Latin roots in English Phono-semantic matching Further reading Peter Braun, Burkhard Schaeder, Johannes Volmert (eds.): Internationalismen II. Studien zur interlingualen Lexikologie und Lexikographie (Reihe Germanistische Linguistik. Band 246), Tübingen: Niemeyer 2003, . References Historical linguistics Interlingua Etymology