Europanto Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
| Europanto | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Belgium |
| Region: | Brussels |
| Ranking: | Not in top 100 |
| Genetic classification: | Artificial language Europanto |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | art |
| SIL | EUR |
Europanto is a fictional constructed language, a linguistic jest with a hodge-podge vocabulary from many European languages. It was created in 1996 by Diego Marani, a translator for the European Council of Ministers in Brussels. Marani created it in response to the perceived dominance of English, which has forced many non-native speakers to struggle with learning English as a second language, but who bring in words and phrases from other languages to express themselves and help their listeners. Europanto has neither a clear grammar nor a defined vocabulary. This is a bit of a parody of the international auxiliary language genre (the "Euroclone" variety in particular) – a parody that some classify as a jokelang.
The name Europanto is a portmanteau combination of "European" and the Greek stem "πάντ-" (all) which resembles "Esperanto", a genuine artificially constructed language.
Marani wrote regular newspaper columns about the "language" and published a novel using it.
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