Esperanto vs. Europún In the long run there will be a decision whether Europún is strong enough or not to replace the existing and respected European auxilliary language Esperanto as the European Unilang?! The only way wud be thru simple and adaptable approaches...let's see what we have here...Ni artikali: Nu, Ni et Un
Nu/Ni: The definite articles "Nu" and "Ni" derive from the Irish articles “An” (sgl.) and “Na” (pl.). In Europún “Nu” means “the” (sgl.) and “Ni” “the” (pl.). There is no distinction between f, m and n, i.e. nu fem – the woman, ni femi – the women, nu patar – the father, ni patari – the fathers, nu strat – the street and ni strati – the streets.
Un: The indefinite article is “Un” and there is no distinction between f, m and n, i.e. un fem – a (one) woman, un patar – a (one) father and un strat – a (one) street.
Ni casi d’Europúnoq
Nominativ
Garden: Un gan - Nu gan – Ni gani
Animal: Un animal - N’animal – Ni animali
Butter: Un bur – Nu bur – Ni buri
Car: Un car - Do cari
Genetiv (d’ oq/-iq)
Nu flor d’alpoq (sgl.)
Ni colori d’fiziq (pl.)
Dativ (i.e. con, por et en)
Con vin/vini
Por popul/populi
En lingo/lingi
Akusativ (t’)
Est esir nu human t’fud – Sont esir ni humani t’fudi
Lokativ
I faz/fazi
In automobil/automobili (“In” only used before “a-, e-, i-, o- and u-“ words)
In hus/husi (“In” only used before “h-“ words, vive la France :-)
Temporativ
Ay zabad – Ay zabadi
As tid – As tidi
Singular et Plural
Nominativ (-i):
As most of the words in Europún end with a consonant it is easy to add the plural suffix –i:
Un/Nu stat – Ni stati
Un/N’akv – Ni akvi
But: Un taksi/nu taksi - ni taksi
Genetiv (-eq, -iq or –qi):
Ni tabali d’bareq (sgl.)
Ni vali d’landiq (pl.)
Ni banqi d’parq (sgl.) y ni portali d’parqi (pl.)
Ni gani d’paradúqi (pl.)
Dativ/Akusativ/Lokativ/Temporativ (-i)
D: Con matar – Con matari
A: T’castal – T’castali
L: I zatox – I zatoxi
T: Ay tid d’soloq – Ay tidi d’soloq
Pronounciation
Europún allows the speaker to pronounce a word in a way that is familiar to her/his own language (but to keep a unique spelling at the same time), i.e. Nu faz – The face:
English: Nu feıs
German: Nu fa∫
French: Nu fas
C, K et Q
C is the "K" in the beginning: con-vil-ud!
K is the "K" in the middle: n’akt (except Genetiv plural, i.e. ni pagi d’buqi)
Q is the "K" in the end: nu Iraq
Reason: The “K” sound is not equally represented in the European languages. Therefore a combination is needed to reflect the varieties of the “K” sound so different European language groups find it easier to accept Europún spelling.
Ni jokari - The jokers
“Z”
Pronounced as “SH” (IPA "∫") it allows the speaker to use it as a soft “SH”, “TS” or even “S” in all its variety, i.e. nu zabad, nu zatox, nu danz.
“Ú”
Pronounced as “EE” (IPA "I:") it is replacing “-Y” in English, “-IE” in German and French, i.e. n’apatú, nu farmazú.
„X“
Pronounced as „CH“ (IPA "X") as in „Loch“ it allows the speaker to change the sound „CH“ to „K“ or “KS”, i.e. na monarxú, na export/eksport, na taxi/taksi (ni taxi/taksi pl.):
English: The monarchy, the export, the taxi
German: Die Monarchie, der Export, das Taxi
French: La monarchie, l’export, le taxi
Dikzonar:
N'avantaz - The advantage
N'artikal - The article
Nu - The (sgl.)
Ni - The (pl.)
Un - A, an, one
Nu fem - The woman
Nu patar - The father
Nu strat - The street
Nu cas - The case
Nominativ - The subject case
Nu gan - The garden
N'animal - The animal
Nu bur - The butter
Nu car - The car
Genetiv - The
Nu flor d'alpiq - The flower of the alps
Ni colori d'fiziq - The colours of fish(es)
Dativ - The
con - with
Nu vin - The wine
por - for
Nu popul - The people
en - in (language)
Nu lingo - The language
Akusativ - The object case
est esir - eat (only with humans)
Na fud - The food
Lokativ - The place case
i/in - in
Nu faz - The face
N'automobil - The automobile
Nu hus - The house
Temporativ - The time case
ay - in, at, on (in connection with time)
Na zabad - The Sabbath
as - during
Nu tid - The time
Singular et Plural - Singular and Plural
Nu stat - The state
N'akv - The water
Nu taksi - The taxi
Nu tabal - The table
Nu bar - The bar
Nu val - The valley
Nu land - The land, country
Nu banq - The bank
Nu parq - the parq
Nu portal - The portal
Nu paradú - The paradies
Nu matar - The mother
Nu castal - The castle
Nu zatox - The chateaux
Nu sol - The sun
C, K et Q - C, K and Q
con-vil-ud! - Please! (with-will-yours!)
N'akt - The act
Nu pag - The page
Nu buq - The book
Nu Iraq - The Iraq
Nu jokar - The joker
Nu danz - The dance
N'apatú - The apathy
Nu farmazú - The pharmacy
Nu monarxú - The monarchy
N'eksport - The export
Por mori informazoni on Europún email mrkunlovevn@gmail.com, con-vil-ud!
