# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/piet-cleij
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:58:19.626Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/piet-cleij"
name: "Piet Cleij"
slug: "piet-cleij"
description: "Interlingua is an international auxiliary language (IAL) developed between 1937 and 1951 by the American International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). It is a constructed language of the \"naturalistic\" variety, whose vocabulary, grammar, and other characteristics are derived from natural languages. Interlingua literature maintains that (written) Interlingua is comprehensible to the 900 million people who speak Romance languages, though it is actively spoken by only a few hundred."
tagline: "Dutch lexicographer and interlinguist (1927-2015)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Bandiera_de_Interlingua.svg/330px-Bandiera_de_Interlingua.svg.png"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1927-05-27"
deathDate: "2015-01-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           28.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.400468
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Piet Cleij"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AC"
    title: "بيت كليج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Cleij"
    title: "Piet Cleij"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Cleij"
    title: "Piet Cleij"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Cleij"
    title: "Piet Cleij"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Cleij"
    title: "Piet Cleij"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Cleij"
    title: "Piet Cleij"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Cleij"
    title: "Piet Cleij"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3495255"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump