Europanto
Sign in to saveEuropanto is a macaronic language concept with a fluid vocabulary from European languages of the user's choice or need. It was conceived in 1996 by Diego Marani (a journalist, author and translator for the European Council of Ministers in Brussels) based on the common practice of word-borrowing usage of many European languages. Marani used 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.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Europanto
- Language.creator
- Diego Marani
- Language.created
- 1996
- Language.setting
- European Union administration
- Language.fam1
- jest
- Language.iso3
- none
- Language.iso3comment
- ( deprecated in 2009 as spurious)
- Language.glotto
- none
- Language.ietf
- art-x-europant
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- constructed language
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- described at URL
- langmaker.github.io/db/mdl_europanto.htm
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Origin of the name
- Language code
- Example text
- See also
- Notes and references
- External links
Europanto is a macaronic language concept with a fluid vocabulary from European languages of the user's choice or need. It was conceived in 1996 by Diego Marani (a journalist, author and translator for the European Council of Ministers in Brussels) based on the common practice of word-borrowing usage of many European languages. Marani used 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 concept 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 to communicate.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Europanto” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.