Not every Indo-European is going to have a compatible phonetic inventory or vocabulary. It’s specifically very limited to Europe, as is grammar.
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zloubida@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoIndo-European. That is, 3.4 billion native speakers. And only for the vocabulary and writing system: the grammar is pretty universal.
rockerface@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago 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.
- rockerface@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
quite limited
If you’re Polish
most spoken languages of the world
Haven’t seen any vocabulary from Mandarin in Esperanto
zloubida@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
If you’re Polish
There are 28 phonemes in Esperanto. 44 in English. 51 in Polish (probably less, in fact, I don’t speak Polish maybe someone who does could correct me?).
Haven’t seen any vocabulary from Mandarin in Esperanto.
All ≠ most.
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.