Talk:Europanto

message: I removed the NPOV notice, since the dispute seems to have been resolved a year ago.
Anyhow -- Does anyone think that there could be a Europanto wikipedia?  I mean, Europanto has more active Internet-based users than Dzongkha, Hawaiian (and it's a shame that the Hawaiian wikipedia isn't larger, seeing that 'wikipedia' itself comes from a Hawaiian word), Klingon, or Volapük, and they all have Wikipedias...
ep.wikipedia.org, anyone?  Almafeta 07:39, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Still no luck on http://ep.wikipedia.org? samwaltz 15:40, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  No Problem: Just follow http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WM:LPP , fill in Europanto / artificial language/ ISO 639-3 code:eur / work through the incubator process on Wikipedia:Meta. Try to write/translate articles from http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_articles_every_Wikipedia_should_have to europanto, do this on incubator.wikimedia.org (i think that's the address). Not much hope, if you just insist on Europeans Wikipedia on English Wikipedia. BTW: The Klingon Wikipedia seems to have been closed recently (see the first link). --80.136.74.25 23:51, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think there will be no luck there, since the Klingon wikipedia was stopped. Instead I propose you should make a concept study of what happens when users collaboratively starts mixing languages during a lengthier period, at Conlang.wikia. It would certainly be very funny, but also scientifically interesting, since in essence it is a creation of a Pidgin that is likely to unconsciously and unintendedly get some grammar after some time. Start by trying to make an europanto wikipedia, clone, and see what happens. If you get success, then invite other language students. ... said: Rursus (mbork³) 08:21, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Europanto Wikipedia

message: The text reads "Dieser gebrukeres parlent Europanto". The noun "gebrukeres" as well as the verb "parlent" look like plurals, whereas they should be singulars (like the demonstrative adjective). Apokrif 14:42, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:Category:User er]] 

message: Something is weird.
I almost deleted the  template, because i thought that it is just a well-publicised parody which hardly qualifies as a conlang.
And then i saw that it is documented at the Ethnologue, as "A language of Belgium", spoken in "Brussels, European Union buildings ... for use among members of the European Union".
Is it serious?! --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 14:56, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  European Union buildings 

message: The former ISO-639-3 code for Europanto has been retired (http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/639-3_ChangeRequests_2008_Summary.pdf) for the reason "nonexistent". SIL is the attributed organism managing the ISO codes for languages.
Is Europanto a real language or a simple jest, a linguist's joke ?
Dear All,
I'm the inventor of Europanto and I would like to add a few remarks to your interesting discussion. As many of you have well understood, my invention does not want to be a true artificial language and has no ambition to become an international language of the kind we all know. To me artificial languages are a surely a noble idea but are absolutely ineffective and utopic. But this is an aspect that I do not want to tackle here and that deserves a further reasoning. What I intend to do with Europanto is exactly what is happening: provoke a discussion on language in general, on the role it plays in the shaping of our identity. I am convinced that linguistic identity is a thing of the past, at least in Europe. I think that we can build our identity across languages and share them instead of using them to distinct ourselves from the others. The European Union experience shows very well how much in common we Europeans have. What we still lack is the true possibility to communicate. A common language is not the solution. A sharing of languages would be one. Taking advantage of English as a doubtless formidable tool of communication but also being aware of the role other languages can play in mixed areas and on national borders, we can create a multilingual Europe where citizens can talk to each other and build at last an integrated society. Europe is made of borders. If on each border people would learn each other language we would have a true multilingual and better integrated Europe. We should above all be aware that languages belong to those who speak them, not to governments or academies. Keeping this in mind, we can have a more relaxed and open approach to language learning and be less afraid of the threat of English dominance. Speaking English we take possession of it, we make it a language of our own, we pollute it with our way of thinking, our vision of reality, our national character. In this perspective must be seen my Europanto. I want to show that languages are accessible, that you can play with them, that they have always been mixing one another, that purity in language is as false as in race, that even with a superficial knowledge you can communicate in a foreign language, that learning a language is easy. The discussion you are having in this web site is very well to the point. I do not care about the opinion you have on my Europanto, whether you consider it a constructed language or an imposture or a delirium. I appreciate instead that you reflect on the issue and I am glad to have had the opportunity to join this forum.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.169.131.14 (talk) 09:58, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Sort of both, but it's more of a jest. See the BBC article on it. Jchthys (talk) 15:16, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

text: Asking if Europanto is a real language is like asking if Discordianism is a real religion.  Almafeta (talk) 03:40, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The Discordians would love that statement, since it is some kilos of flax! ... said: Rursus (mbork³) 08:24, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  ISO 639-3 

message: I just came across this page by chance. Can Svorsk be considered a sort of Europanto? Maybe even as Scandopanto... I am, by the way, a fluent speaker of Svorska...--Oddeivind (talk) 07:17, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I wouldn't consider it a form of Europanto myself, but it would be debatable, since Europanto technically has no rules. I don't think Svorska belongs in the article except as a "see also" link. Jchthys (talk) 15:18, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: More like a Macaronic language. ... said: Rursus (mbork³) 08:25, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Svorsk 

message: Why is a book by Tom Sharpe, which he certainly didn't write in Europanto, given as a sample passage (not 'an example passage', which isn't English) of the language? So is this from a translation of his book by Marani? In that case, if his language is based on the seven languages mentioned, what are words from other languages like 'falaba' (half-Portuguese, half-Spanish) and 'exercicis' (Catalan) doing in there? Or do you just make it up as you go along, and expect the listener or reader to work out whatever language you happen to choose?213.127.210.95 (talk) 17:24, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wilt by Tom Sharpe