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What's your opinion on Esperanto (language)? (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 week ago by NateNate60@lemmy.world to c/socialism@lemmy.ml

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Apparently the language was popular among early 20th century socialist movements because it was of an international character and therefore not associated with any nationality and its use by international socialist organisations wouldn't show favour to any particular country. It was banned in Nazi Germany and other fascist states because of its association with the left wing, with anti-nationalism, and because its creator was Jewish. It has mostly languished since then but still has around 2 million speakers with about 1,000 native speakers.

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[–] revanthetrueemperor@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think its a good idea in theory but sadly it is absolutly not a Universal language, it is an european language (i tried learning it and from my limited experience , its a mix of french/spanich/italian/english with a little bit of german.) So i dont really like it because of the racist implication that European language are the most important and are "Universal ".

[–] JustVik@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Then we need to look at Ithkuil. It includes not only the features of European languages, but it also seems more difficult to learn. :D

I don't think it's because someone thought that European languages were the most important, it just seemed to the creator that it would make the language easier to learn. Maybe it was because he knew and spoke more European languages himself.