What's the best known artificial international language?
Esperanto was created by L.L. Zamenhof, a Polish oculist. He constructed this language in order to be used as the second international language. Esperanto is an easy language for Europeans to learn. All the words are derived from common European languages, pronunciation is simplified: every word is read as spelled. Orthography of Esperanto is phonetic, and grammar always obeys the rules, with no exceptions from them.
There are some words in Esperanto:
- A cat - Kato
- A house - Domo
- Hello! - Hola!
- To walk - Promeni
- A bird - Birdo
An estimated number of Esperanto speaker in today's world varies from 100 thousand to several million people.
What are your thoughts on this subject?
24 Comments
calvinroyorlandi
Hola!
Kan you helpo?
I locked my domo promeni, and all hello broke loose.
I don't have ceys, and it's raining katos and dogos!
David Roy
What's the Esperanto for 'covfefe'?
Ray Anderson
They tried to teach us Esperanto at school in the 60s. Never really saw the point. I didn't realise then that it would be useful in the 23rd century on board the USS Enterprise 😂
earlepg
Easy since sometime in the past I heard of esparanto being an artificial language. I thought that the name was rather crazy: sounding like a Spanish bandit.
jimsclads
George Soros’s father taught Esperanto in school and he was very pleased that his son chose Soros as a replacement for his Jewish sounding name in Nazi Germany. It means “the next one” and some, such as myself, think it could be a clue that he has a 666 tattooed on him.
John W Shreve
Ray Anderson, You were there, too?
Rashi Rosenzweig
Birdo?? LMAO!!!
Debra Jenkins
Similar to Wenglish. If the Welsh speaker doesn't know the Welsh word for something, they use the English and just add an 'o' on the end!!!
Alan Holley
What about yedish?
mkrash
All to easy for a world traveler ?
Evelyn Forbes
Wrong again, never heard of that language!
Charles Rosenberg
Weird. None of the other choices are "artificial". But then there aren't many in existence...the Peace Corps sponsored the development of one for use in their language aptitude test, but no one speaks it (the U. S. Army used to use it in their own test, but not sure if it has been supplanted). Would be trippy if they did!! Fun around the office. Also, the producers of the rather bogus* film The Interpreter hired a master linguist to create an artificial African language for the special use of Nicole Kidman and other members of the cast...great for chatting her up, if the opportunity presents itself... *bogus: I worked at the UN for 14 years, about half in NY HQ. The US Secret Service does not have the run of the place, unless staffed by Sean Penn. Also, some of us were quite pissed that the film production company used several hundred UN staff as extras without paying SAG scale or, alternatively, making a donation, in lieu of payment, to the fund for widows and orphans of UN personnel killed on active duty. Apparently some of the leadership, especially the Under Secretary-General for Public Information, were all a-twitter about Hollywood in our midst (since he was a published weekend novelist, maybe hoping to pitch a script). (Which is not to slag the celebrity ambassadors that pitch in to support UN programs...some, like George Clooney, are very serious, committed folks who donate a lot of time and energy...) Well, you read it here first. And probably the only time. I feel better now for my modest rant.
Deokie Roopnarind
I heard the Word Esperanto a while back ,thus my guess,
Rhonda Wentz Bondurant
Interesting...
Debbie Vandenberg
Git it right