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rockerface@lemmy.cafe 8 hours ago Not every Indo-European is going to have a compatible phonetic inventory or vocabulary. It’s specifically very limited to Europe, as is grammar.
rockerface@lemmy.cafe 8 hours ago
zloubida@sh.itjust.works 7 hours 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
zloubida@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
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?).
All ≠ most.
Have you looked at which phonemes Esperanto has? If you look me in the eyes and say an international language needs to have a distinction between [h] (written as “h") and [x] (written as “ĥ"), I can only make a conclusion you’re trolling. See also distinctions between:
We only need “th” to become a full fledged abomination.
Also, yes, all is not most. But it is concerning if the “most” conveniently all happen to be languages from the same family, spoken in the same relatively small region.