> Esperanto is a romance language - I don't see any Germanic or Slavic in there There are loads of Esperanto nouns and verbs based on Germanic (mainly based on

> Esperanto is a romance language - I don't see any Germanic or Slavic in there There are loads of Esperanto nouns and verbs based on Germanic (mainly based on German, the main Germanic language L.L. Zamenhof knew and a prestigious language for intellectual communication in Eastern Europe at the time, but also a few English roots). With regard to Slavic, the question particle was taken from Polish and I have always assumed that the inflexion of participles was copied from Russian.