Transpiranto is a
parody language, a caricature of the international auxiliary language
Esperanto
Esperanto ( or ) is the world's most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Created by the Warsaw-based ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, it was intended to be a universal second language for international communi ...
. The name contains a play on the Swedish verb ''transpirera'', to perspire. The parody language was developed from 1929 by contributors to the publication ''
Grönköpings Veckoblad
''Grönköpings Veckoblad'' is a Swedish satirical monthly magazine. The name translates as "''The Grönköping Weekly''", or "''The Greenville Weekly''", Grönköping being a fictional Swedish town. The name Grönköping predates the magazine; ...
'' ('the Greenville Weekly', a Swedish satirical monthly), through a series of comical translations of well-known Scandinavian songs and poems, more than 200 in all. The first two Transpiranto poems were written by
Nils Hasselskog.
In recent years, several poems originally written in Esperanto have been rendered into Transpiranto by Martin Weichert, and have been published in the Swedish Esperanto journal ''La Espero'', and via the internet.
Texts in Transpiranto consist of short phrases taken straight from English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Latin, alternating with more strictly Esperanto-like fragments, and with Swedish slang.
Esperanto and Transpiranto have been compared by the linguist Bengt Sigurd, a contributor to a Swedish anthology about language issues.
[Sigurd, Bengt. 1993. 'Esperanto, transpiranto och andra konstgjorda språk.' wedish - 'Esperanto, transpiranto and other artificial languages'In Jerker Blomqvist and Ulf Teleman, ed. ''Språk i världen: Broar och barriärer'' wedish - ''Languages in the World: Bridges and Barriers''Lund University Press. Lund.]
See also
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Esperanto
Esperanto ( or ) is the world's most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Created by the Warsaw-based ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, it was intended to be a universal second language for international communi ...
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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 (a journalist, author and translator for the European Council of Ministers in Brusse ...
References
External links
An article about Transpiranto, with example poems at Martin Weichert's site
Titles of Transpiranto poems published in Grönköpings Veckoblad 1929; 1969-1970; 1976-83
Titles of Transpiranto poems published in Grönköpings Veckoblad 1984-2003
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ttp://www.pipelinedata.se/transpiranto.htm Several transpiranto translations of Swedish poems and songs{{in lang, sv
Artistic languages
Swedish humour
Constructed languages introduced in the 1920s
1929 introductions