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Europanto Language | colspan="2" bgcolor="#dddddd" style="font-size:120%"|Europanto | | valign="top"|Spoken in: | Belgium | | valign="top"|Region: | Brussels | | valign="top"|Ranking: | Not in top 100 | valign="top"|Genetic
classification: | Artificial language
Europanto | | colspan="2" bgcolor="#dddddd"|Language codes | | a href="/encyclopedia/ISO-639" title="ISO 639">ISO 639-2 | art | | a href="/encyclopedia/SIL" title="SIL">SIL | EUR | Europanto is a 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 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. Thus, Europanto has a grammar much like English, with words borrowed from various languages and adapted to be easily understood. It is sometimes considered a parody of the international auxiliary language genre, particularly the "Euroclone" variety. The name Europanto is a portmanteau combination of European and the Greek stem πάντ- (all), and resembles Esperanto. Marani wrote regular newspaper columns about the language and published a novel using it. See also External links
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