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Why is Esperanto in the natural languages list? Is it not constructed?

• mostlylurks 3y ago
  Perhaps because it actually has native speakers, and thus at least some people use their innate faculties for language to speak it and in the process create pressures for it to shape itself to fit the resulting constraints, which can't be said for (most?) other constructed languages, which mostly remain purely theoretical constructs, at best spoken as foreign languages, and which may be such that nothing like them would ever arise naturally or such that they couldn't be adopted as-they-are as a native language.