It was a good idea for the time it was created, when Europeans were constantly killing eachother all over the place.
Finally, it was forming the EU that got them to stop. So creating a common language kinda felt unnecessary after that.
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rockerface@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago as an artificial language it doesn’t prefer any culture over another
as long as it’s European, of course
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
teslekova@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Do you know if anyone has tried a similar language project that takes the entire globe into account?
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
There were many, many attempts. Most with a European bias tbh, but not all
teslekova@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Thankyou vm for the references to go through. Cheers. Fascinating topic for me, who has never learned any language other than English.
zloubida@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Indo-European. That is, 3.4 billion native speakers. And only for the vocabulary and writing system: the grammar is pretty universal.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
oh sure, i bet punjabi speakers find esperanto trivial to learn, and the latin script it’s written in just feels so familiar to them.
zloubida@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Punjabi speakers will find Esperanto easier than any natural language. It will be harder for them than for, say, a French speaker, but in the absolute it will be easy for both.
Not every Indo-European is going to have a compatible phonetic inventory or vocabulary. It’s specifically very limited to Europe, as is grammar.
zloubida@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
No the grammar will be easily understood to anyone having a language with an accusative morphosyntactic alignment, that is, by far the most widespread one. The phonetic inventory is quite limited, so perfectly learnable for every culture. For the vocabulary I agree, but it’s linked to the most spoken languages of the world, so, not that bad.
If you’re Polish
Haven’t seen any vocabulary from Mandarin in Esperanto