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A better question is why doesn't everyone in the world speak Esparanto.

• tokenadult 18y ago
  There is an answer to that question: http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/ http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/ Esperanto is not particularly easy to learn, despite the claims of its founder, so learners devote their time and effort to learning languages with much more return on investment once the language is learned.
• vaksel 18y ago
  Because it has to complete with English which is already a world language(at least in the business world)
  • jey 18y ago
    And Lojban is better anyway. ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban http://pinstack.blogspot.com/2008/02/top-7-reasons-to-learn-lojban.html http://pinstack.blogspot.com/2008/02/top-7-reasons-to-learn-... http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Lojban+Introductory+Brochure&bl=y http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Lojban+Introd...
• mooism2 18y ago
  Or even, why isn't every language written using the latin alphabet? To which an answer might be, latin doesn't support certain sounds, can't represent tones... and if it did, it would break chinese language interoperability.
  • jgranby 18y ago
    Analogy with human languages isn't ideal, because they have almost all grown up organically, whereas programming languages are, to a large extent, designed. The reason that every language doesn't use the Latin alphabet is, amongst others, geographic -- so many others grew up in isolation from the West, they'd never come across that alphabet before. The same isn't really true of programming languages.