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For a language it sure does open itself up to schoolboy humour like many other languages. How are you? In esperanto is: Kiel vi fartas? Which for the uninitia
by Zenst 7y ago
For a language it sure does open itself up to schoolboy humour like many other languages.
How are you? In esperanto is: Kiel vi fartas?
Which for the uninitiated trying to understand what was said and from an english speaking background, would probably yield a response of : Pardon me.
Not sure how other languages bases see this and it does seem to be more palatable towards french/spanish in how it sounds and may for those native speakers be easier to pick up I suspect.
Though I've never met a person who can speak esperanto, I've met many people who can speak Klingon. Which makes me wonder is there more people in the world that speak some Klingon than esperanto!
- G4BB3R 7y agoEsperanto has more than 100 thousand fluent speakers (lower levels are in the millions) and more than 2000 native speakers. Klingon is not even close to esperanto.
- firatcan 7y agoYes, I read that it was millions after the WW2, but it starts declining since then.
- D-Coder 7y agoNot according to a professor who did actual research on number of speakers of languages. Three letters from Professor Sidney Culbert (English originals): >Notes on the letters: http://www.panix.com/~dwolff/docs/culbert-notes.html http://www.panix.com/~dwolff/docs/culbert-notes.html >Letter from 1967: http://www.panix.com/~dwolff/docs/culbert-1967.html http://www.panix.com/~dwolff/docs/culbert-1967.html >Letter from 1969: http://www.panix.com/~dwolff/docs/culbert-1969.html http://www.panix.com/~dwolff/docs/culbert-1969.html >Letter about research methodology: http://www.panix.com/~dwolff/docs/culbert-methods.html http://www.panix.com/~dwolff/docs/culbert-methods.html