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{{Infobox language
|name=Uropi
|image=Flag of Uropi.svg
|imagesize=150px
|creator=Joël Landais
|setting=[[International auxiliary language]]
|speakers=
|familycolor= conlang
|fam1=[[International auxiliary language]]
|fam2=[[A posteriori language]]
|fam3=[[naturalistic planned language]](?)
|posteriori=based on [[Indo-European languages]]
|agency= Joël Landais [http://uropi.free.fr/index1.html Official website]
|iso3=none
|glotto=none
}}

'''Uropi''' is a [[constructed language]]  which was created by Joël Landais, a French English teacher. Uropi is a synthesis of European languages, explicitly based on the common [[Proto-Indo-European roots|Indo-European roots]] and aims at being used as an [[international auxiliary language]] for Europe and thus contributing to building a European identity. Besides, given the spread of [[Indo-European languages]] outside Europe (today half the world population speaks an I-E language), it could be an international language for the world.

Uropi was begun in 1986; since then, it has undergone certain modifications; its vocabulary keeps growing (the French-Uropi dictionary has over 10,000 words).

Uropi became known in Europe in the early 1990s.<ref>Ducos, Étienne, «''Joël Landais invente la 251e langue''», in ''Libération'', October 16, 1986</ref><ref>Bremer, Hans-Hagen, «''Vok vu Uropi: Ein Lehrer träumt nachts auf europäisch''» in ''Frankfurter Rundschau'', November 24, 1986</ref><ref>Долгополов, Николай, «''Уроки Уропи''» in ''Комсомольская Правда'', November 21, 1987</ref><ref>Étienne Ducos, «''Des lettres russes arrivent par centaines chez Joël Landais''», in ''L'Écho républicain'', December 15, 1987</ref><ref>Webster, Paul, «''Uropi, the new lingua franca''», in ''The Guardian Weekly'', week of January 15, 1989</ref><ref>Singer, Enrico, «''Uropi, una nuova lingua per l'Europa''», in ''La Stampa'', February 24, 1989</ref><ref>Tabone, Bénédicte, «''L'Uropi n'est pas une utopie''», in ''La Nouvelle République du Centre Ouest'',  July 2, 1989</ref><ref>Author not mentioned,  «''Uropi, mehr als eine private Geheimsprache - Ein Chance in Europa''» in ''Tagespost'', October 28–29, 1989</ref><ref>Долгополов, Николай, «''Мы снова говорим на разных языках''» in ''Комсомольская Правда'', April 29, 1990</ref><ref>Hrabovský, Jiří, «''Vok vu Uròpi? Hovoříte po Evropsku?''» in ''Svět v Obrazech'', November 29, 1990</ref><ref>Tribout, Carole, «''Les Suisses se penchent sur l'Uropi''», in ''République du Centre'', October 23, 1991</ref>