Thursday, November 1, 2007

Europún in a new look as Eurolanguage

Dublin. Europún derives from Iorpún which itself has its roots in Duirún (with Duirún being a fully artificial language). In order to bring Europún to the next step we decided to change a few things that cut off most links to previous artificial languages and set the focus back on (the main) European languages.

Changes
# The article "na" (=the) will change to "nu" for two reasons, 1) the "a" in "na" suggests a female term which can be avoided by the neutral "u" and 2) as a reversal of "un" (=one, a/an)
# The plural "-i" will change to "-s"

Eksampals
€ Nu carn d'animals
prev. Na carn d'animali
EN The meat/flesh of the animals
DE Das Fleisch der Tiere

Dikzonar
nu - the
carn - meat/flesh
animal - animal

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Europan = Europún?

How to form an artificial language which makes sense to everyone or at least to most of us? One would agree that it seems a great and sometimes impossible challenge creating a unilang which would serve all Europe and Europeans as a European auxiliary language such as Esperanto or Interlingua. While Esperanto & Interlingua were introduced in late 1880 and mid 1950, more up-to-date approaches seem necessary to deal with the enormous changes in social, cultural & European life. R u ready? Democracies, elections, the internet, mobile phones & free boundaries opened up a new world which cannot be ignored, the European Spirit needs to be held up high and its influence should be reflected in every step of our attempt in creating a European Unilang.

Surprisingly we have recently come across an experiment similar to the Europún approach which indicates that Europeans - wherever you are - are willing to at least discuss or even play with the thought of a European Unilang => EUROPAN, good luck, Thomas...keep in touch!

Love,
Arne


P.S.: Always feel free to contact me via mrkunlovevn@gmail.com or arneduering@gmail.com