Indo-European language revival

Dnghu Adsoqiation (or “Language Association”, in English), is about to be legally incorporated in Spain under the name Asociación Dnghu. It is not the happiest day for Indo-European Revival Group, as our intention was always to obtain enough funds to create a private Foundation, but it is indeed good news for the future of Indo-European as a spoken language.

We have been working for almost a year already as ‘Dnghu Group’ or simply ‘Dnghu’, without any legal status, thus losing the few opportunities we had to obtain public subsidies for cultural institutions. It was not important, however, as there was no important community behind our projects.

But, enough is enough, and we cannot live just on tiny scholarships, always awaiting a change in the general mood toward our projects, and – having ahead the deadline of 2007′s regional public funding for cultural institutions – we deem it our best option right now to have a legal, non-profit organization applying for them.

We expect to receive public subsidies from regional, national and European administrations, and also investments and funds from banks and other private institutions; and we hope to control at the same time the problems that an association may pose on organizational and budgetary matters…

Your Indo-European Language Team.

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Three new online projects:

1) We have created a new blog for our Second Life virtual world adventure, to post events and news of what happens to our Indo-European language revival project “in-world”. We are looking forward to collaborating with other avatars in proving the advantages of virtual education and virtual communities.

2) If you are a member of Orkut, you can also join our efforts in our Indo-European community.

3) We have also created an Indo-European language Group with Google, but we will wait to see if (and when) we use it just for Indo-European languages’ research, for Indo-European language revival, or even for our virtual community.

Your Indo-European Language Team.

22/12/2006 [Legacy]

The Dnghu Group has finally accepted a next step towards the implementation of Europaio as the National language of the European Union, as it will support the creation of a pan-European political party, Oinion, “Union” (website available to date only in English).

Most permanent supporters didn’t adhere to the new project, though, as they are either already involved in existing political parties or simply don’t want to go political.

The idea of mutual help among pro-European political parties and Dnghu has been a constant demand of our members in our almost two years of existence. It wasn’t appropriate, however, to request financial and political help from our regional and national governments, and at the same time criticize their linguistic and social policies, so we decided to be as independent as a pro-European group like ours could be, in the hope that this alone and our promotion of Europaio would be enough to receive proper public financing.

Professors from the University of Extremadura and representatives of regional public companies adviced us long ago to legally incorporate an association, for proper fundraising requests and tax deductibility advantages, instead of spending and requesting money privately – as a group or as a Foundation.

We believe that Europaio should be a set of grammatical rules for the already reconstructed Late Proto-Indo-European language, and such a work cannot be supported by people associated on the basis of democracy, but on the basis of meritocracy: small groups of experts are thus more indicated to develop the language rules, and that is the pattern we have followed in all of our Indo-European-based projects.

Meanwhile, some Dnghu members have requested funds and help to Indo-European departments and to pro-European associations, foundations and even political parties, but none of them had ever taken on account the possibility of a single European language, and thus none of those institutions deemed themselves adequate to fund or help us in such a project.

We have eventually decided to take a bold step forward, even before the language system is stable, and begin to propose the creation of a political party (basically an association with members electible for the government), whose main principles are “Freedom, Democracy, Laïcité, Indo-European language and Christianity”, thus trying to merge Dnghu’s Indo-European revival project with the more traditional Paneuropean Movement.

Some think this move is too risky, as it could leave us without University and regional support, and without some of our present or future supporters, who could disagree with Oinion’s ideas. Nevertheless, Dnghu remains independent from Oinion, and anyway our work is already in a very difficult deadlock, as we wait for parties and corporations to support Europaio, and they are waiting for more popular support for Europaio, what in turn will not come unless we become politically active. So, Alea Jacta Est!.

21/7/2006 [Legacy]

The Dnghu Group, along with some other innovative projects, have finished the business trip to Barcelona, which was designed to visit the main centers for creativity and innovation in one of Europe’s most innovative cities.

We visited the Raval quarter, the MACBA Museum and the Forum; we made a workshop in the ESDI, met the managers of innovative businesses such as Santa & Cole and The Node Company, and we visited different business concepts such as Amfivia, Marc Martà­ or USACD, and also Barcelona’s main business and entrepreneurial projects: 22@Barcelona and Barcelona Activa.

There was also time to know the Catalan traditional food in the old Fonda de Granollers and in a restaurant near the Parque Güell, as well as the modern cuisine trends in Casa Camper, in Ra and in Hà baluc. The Fura dels Baus also showed us the secrets of their Naymon ship.