Europanto
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| Europanto | ||
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| Created by | Diego Marani| 1996 | |
| Setting and usage | European Union administration | |
| Total speakers | — | |
| Category (purpose) | jest
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | art | |
| ISO 639-3 | – | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Europanto is a linguistic jest presented as a "constructed language" with a hodge-podge vocabulary from many European languages. It was created in 1996 by Diego Marani, a journalist, author and translator for the European Council of Ministers in Brussels. Marani created it in response to the perceived dominance of the English language; it is an emulation of the effect that non-native speakers struggling to learn a language typically add words and phrases from their native language to express their meanings clearly.
The main feature of Europanto is that there are no fixed rules — merely a set of suggestions. This means that anybody can start to speak Europanto immediately; on the other hand, it is the speaker's responsibility to draw on an assumed common vocabulary and grammar between himself and the audience and to make himself understood.
Europanto is a parody of international auxiliary languages; it imitates the way that such constructed languages draw their vocabularies from different languages.[citation needed] The name Europanto is a portmanteau combination of European and the Greek stem πάντ- (all); however, it is also an imitation of Esperanto, a widely spoken international auxiliary language.[citation needed]
Marani wrote regular newspaper columns about the language and published a novel using it. As of 2005, he no longer actively promotes it.
[edit] Example
Europanto want nicht informe aber amuse. Porqué betanke aan die illuminante forza van eine laugh, sometimes man remarque things dat anders el hadde noticed nicht. Laugh esse directe emanatione des intelligence, Aristotele dixit. In der Europa des future, Europanto coudde mucho helpful esse por manige mensen inderfacts. After Euro bezale, wat more coherente dann Europanto speake?
—Diego Marani, DE EUROPANTO BRICOPOLITIK : Europantodag
