Europanto
Europanto is a macaronic language concept with a fluid vocabulary from European languages of the user's choice or need. It was conceived in 1996 by Diego Marani based on the common practice of word-borrowing usage of many European languages. Marani used 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.
The main concept of Europanto is that there are no fixed rules—merely a set of suggestions. This means that anybody can start to speak Europanto immediately; on the other hand, it is the speaker's responsibility to draw on an assumed common vocabulary and grammar to communicate.
Marani wrote regular newspaper columns about the language and published a novel using it. As of 2005 he was no longer actively promoting it.
Origin of the name
The language's name "europanto" is a portmanteau of Europa and the Greek root παντώς- and bears an intentional similarity with the name of the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language, Esperanto.Language code
The ISO 639-3 standard draft used to have the codeeur for this constructed language, but it was retired on 16 January 2009, with the reason “Nonexistent”. For this reason, it is also not a valid language subtag for BCP 47 as it was not registered in the IANA Language Subtags Registry.