Can It be an International Language?
chiara, good evening!
Here is my first post in this E-forum, and firstly I'd say that I know too little about Esperanto, but I have a reason to say something...
The aim of Esperanto is to become an international language, to be spoken by people boudary-less, but the reality till now is that, it's far from successful.
Can it be an international language one dayÉ
Maybe, I think firstly for one language, whether natural or manmade, if it's going to be a global one, it must bear overwhelming features, that is:
1.not only to translate many cultures from other languages, but generate voluminous literature, of its originality;
2.to be spoken by a great majority of population.
But the fact is, till today, Esperanto is labouring on translating from other cultures, it cannot even produce its own culture and literature, and its vocabulary thus does not come from its development of culture and language, but from the other languages and cultures of the composers who usually use those other-than-Esperanto languages more often since as their mother tongue as well as the most frequent available one in ordinary life.
And Esperanto lacks believers, here I say of believers, just because the ones who learn or speak Esperanto before doing this can even master more than one or two natural languages and use them quite often, and mostly they are linguists, so the population of Esperanto movements is limited only to a small group of language lovers or linguists, and common people who only use one language, that is, his own mother tongue other than Esperanto, could find impossible or unbelievable to choose to learn this unrealistic language!
And third, as I said before in other post, Esperanto is son of latin still. It cannot represent all of the world, it does not overlive.
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