Transpiranto

Transpiranto

Transpiranto is a parody language, a caricature of the international auxiliary language Esperanto. 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, (a Swedish satirical monthly whose title includes the word 'weekly'), through a series of comical translations of well-known Scandinavian songs and poems, more than 200 in all. [See titles listed in external links below]

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 has been compared to Transpiranto by the linguist Bengt Sigurd, a contributor to a Swedish anthology about language issues. [ Sigurd, Bengt. 1993. 'Esperanto, transpiranto och andra konstgjorda språk.' [Swedish - 'Esperanto, transpiranto and other artificial languages'] In Jerker Blomqvist and Ulf Teleman, ed. "Språk i världen: Broar och barriärer" [Swedish - "Languages in the World: Bridges and Barriers"] Lund University Press. Lund.ISBN 91-7966-212-9]

See also

External links

* [http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~martinw/esperanto/transpiranto/ An article about Transpiranto, with example poems at Martin Weichert's site] eo icon
* [http://www.gronkoping.nu/index.php?action=las_text&id=1084862505 Titles of Transpiranto poems published in Grönköpings Veckoblad 1929; 1969-1970; 1976-83] sv icon
* [http://www.gronkoping.nu/index.php?action=las_text&id=1073568089 Titles of Transpiranto poems published in Grönköpings Veckoblad 1984-2003] sv icon
* [http://home1.swipnet.se/~w-12019/trans.htm Six otherwise unpublished Transpiranto poems, with short introduction] sv icon


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