Re: TERMINOLOGY: Re: another new language to check out

John Cowan wrote:
>
> Joe scripsit:
>
> > Surely, a Creole is a Pidgin that is spoken as a first
> > language by some people...
> >
> > Is Esperanto?
>
> Yes indeed.  There are between 200 and 2000 such people, depending
> on whom you ask.  The overwhelming majority of them are children of
> marriages that have no other language but Esperanto in common; in all
> cases, the children are bilingual in the local language as well.
>
> In general, they speak fairly pure classical Esperanto; their speech
> habits are not treated as authoritative by the E-o community.

About ten years ago, there was a woman living north of Detroit
who was a native speaker of Esperanto. She grew up in Spain.
Her father was Spanish, and her mother was Latvian. Her parents
met as Esperanto penpals. Eventually they married and settled
in Spain. She had several siblings, and they grew up speaking
Esperanto around the house.

--Ph. D.