01/5/2007
- What is the Dnghu Association?
- Why was the Dnghu Association created?
- Is the Dnghu Association a Corporation?
- Who are the members of the Dnghu Group?
- I want to help. How can I?
- How do I join the Dnghu Group?
- I am considering starting a new MIE-related project, can I?
- May I use Dnghu logos and trademarks?
- What is Modern Indo-European about?
- What is Modern Indo-European not about?
- But Mr. X (a famous linguist, politician, philologist, journalist, etc. you trust) believes that
Proto-Indo-European is an invention...
- I want to learn a second language. Should I learn MIE?
- When and how do you expect MIE to succeed?
- Why "Europaio" and not just 'European' or 'European language'?
- This is the Indo-European Revival Association, so, why can't I find
more pages written in IE?
The Dnghu Association is a Non-Profit Organization provisionally headquartered in Badajoz, Spain,
whose main aim is to provide EU citizens with a national language
to facilitate citizenship, communication and trade.
The Dnghu Association was formed primarily to:
- provide a framework for open, collaborative language development
projects by supplying hardware, communication and business infrastructure;
- create an independent legal entity which can be funded by
public institutions and
private companies and individuals, and be assured that those resources
will be used for the public benefit and do not enrich its founders;
- provide a means for individual volunteers to be sheltered from
intellectual property violations and from legal suits directed
at the Foundation's projects; and,
- protect the Dnghu names and trademarks, as
applied to language products, from being abused by other
individuals or organizations.
Yes. It was incorporated as an Association in Spain in February 2007. There is,
however, no project of expansion as a single Association, but a general offer to
all interested individuals and organizations to take part in the Indo-European language
revival as members of the Dnghu Network.
There is currently a provisional Board of Trustees, and the Dnghu Group
had two founding members,
C. Quiles
and M.T. Batalla, as well as
four permanent supporters:
two distinguished professors of the University of Extremadura, experts in
Economics (Dr.
L.F. de la Macorra)
and Library Science (Dr.
A. Muñoz)
and two English philologists, N. Vermeulen DPhil (UK) and F. Batalla.
Well, you know better than us how you could collaborate with us. Are you a
software developer? a philologist? a server administrator? a politician? do you represent
a local or regional authority that would be interested in funding us? are you rich?...
Be it money or work, either collaborating with us or independently,
every help to revive the Proto-Indo-European language is indeed welcome,
and we hope you can find enough opened
projects to participate in.
If you could contribute in some special way to our projects, there is certainly a
job for you at Dnghu or any of its Associated members. There are no paid jobs yet, though.
To work for us right now means
to give up a better job elsewhere and to dedicate yourself to the project for its
future success alone, without even a promise of being somehow rewarded if we succeed.
If you are still interested, please send us your curriculum vitae at
jobs@dnghu.org. If not, then just
collaborate with us
in your free time!
Yes, indeed. We firmly believe that the revival of Indo-European
needs a social network bigger than that we could ever achieve with Dnghu alone. Apart from the
Dnghu Network, dedicated especially to other corporations,
we plan to offer a service called Soqios,
which aims at providing everyone with the necessary support, be it promotion, hosting/web design,
knowledge, partnerships or even funding. We support a wide range of ideas related to
Dnghu's objectives, from personal websites and proprietary
projects to local, regional or national associations and corporations.
Yes, if you respect our licensing over Dnghu's
brands,
as well as our works' Copyright
and Site Licensing Policies.
If yours is aproject which follows our basic standards and licensing conditions,
you should not have any problems linking it in any reasonable way to Dnghu.
Modern Indo-European is the modern language system based on an old, reconstructed language,
spoken by a prehistoric community,
which is usually called Proto-Indo-European by
linguistic scholars. The Indo-European language we are referring to is the
immediate common ancestor of many modern European languages, usually called Late PIE.
If Latin is the mother of
Romance languages, and (Proto-)Germanic that of the Germanic languages, then Indo-European
is the mother of Latin and Germanic, i.e. the grandmother of modern Indo-European languages.
Modern Indo-European is thus a set of grammatical rules, designed for
Dnghu's Indo-European revival project.
The Indo-European revival's main goal is to substitute present-day linguae francae from third parties
within the European Union for a single, natural and common National Language.
Modern Indo-European is not (exactly) about studying prehistoric
Indo-European peoples and languages. It is not about uniting Iranians, Indians and
Europeans with the rest
of the Indo-European world against the other half. It is not about discovering the truth about
the European Homeland or the IE Urheimat. It is not about substituting EU Member States' regional
or national languages. And it is not about Indo-European speakers' race or genetics.
Well, you can believe whatever you want. We don't enter in the unending field of personal opinions
and ideas, as everyone can have (and usually has) a different one.
Some political groups want to think the Holocaust never happened; some religious groups believe that
evolution is an evil invention of atheists; some businesses say that climate change is an invention and
the necessary measures to stop it are designed to harm the national economy; and choose something you know it's true,
and you will find someone who believes it's not. Now, it's impossible for us to
confront history and science (i.e. historical linguistics, comparative grammar, PIE reconstruction, facts) with personal opinions and
ideas. Research papers on Indo-European linguistics keep appearing, and the scientific community
generally achieves more or less consensus
over certain questions, and that is what we look for when we try to revive Proto-Indo-European as a spoken
language. Everything else - and especially such personal opinions - is generally irrelevant
for this project. Read more.
Probably not. We recommend you to learn English better if it's not your mother tongue,
or any other present-day Indo-European popular
language, as you probably just want to communicate more easily with foreigners.
Indo-European is still a language for experts
(and fans) ready to deal with multi-lingual issues and lots of exceptions and irregularities
to be systematized in the more compact - and still flexible - final modern output. However,
a good intermediate choice would be to learn Sanskrit, Old Greek or Latin, or even early Germanic
or Balto-Slavic dialects, as they are all natural approaches to older PIE and to modern languages alike.
We expect Indo-European to be the official language of the European Union
in the long term, maybe in 20-40 years; if it became official in 10-20 years it would mean a
great success for Europe, as it has
a poorer political and social cohesion compared to that of the Land of Israel a hundred
years ago, where Hebrew became official after 40 years of its revival proposal.
If it is still not used by 2050, it would possibly mean that
Indo-European is becoming another language revival failure, as it has happened with Latin in the
European Union
after its abandonment in the 19th c. (the "recent Latin" revival, promoted in the "Congrès International pour le latin
vivant", 1956, now mostly abandoned and forgotten),
Ancient/Classical Greek in Greece (also "puristic" Greek, the so-called Katharevousa), or Classic Coptic in Egypt in the 19th c., promoted by the
Coptic Church.
The term European is not identified as a language name today; a single,
distinctive name like (non-inflected) Europaio is easier to recognize
as the language name in this initial stage,
and thus easier to be promoted everywhere, especially for IE speakers.
Someone told us that to call Europe's Indo-European
Europaio is like calling Hebrew "Ivrit". Not really. It is more like calling
Old English Eald Englisc, in English; the point is that all IE modern dialects
can use this name as an old word, not as a foreign one.
We took the idea of naming it Europaio from the Basque example:
their language is normally referred to as "Euskera" instead of Basque in the
different languages of Spain, being thus the same name used throughout the country.
Because you wouldn't be able to understand it, and as this website's
main goal is informing others about our projects, it is more practical to provide information in
the languages spoken by our readers.
We have nevertheless translated some web pages as Dnghu's main website,
into a "test translation", although - because we speak mainly Romance and Germanic languages - its syntax
may sound 'too Latin', as it has been already described by some readers.
