Transpiranto is a parody language, a caricature of the international auxiliary language

Esperanto Esperanto (, ) is the world's most widely spoken Constructed language, constructed international auxiliary language. Created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887 to be 'the International Language' (), it is intended to be a universal second language for ...

. 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'' ('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

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. Texts in Transpiranto consist of short phrases taken straight from

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, 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.

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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

* ttp://www.pipelinedata.se/transpiranto.htm Several transpiranto translations of Swedish poems and songs{{in lang, sv 1929 introductions Artistic languages Constructed languages introduced in the 1920s Satirical works Swedish humour Swedish satire

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