Re: TERMINOLOGY: Re: another new language to check out
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 1, 2004, 20:25 |
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Joe scripsit:
> Surely, a Creole is a Pidgin that is spoken as a firstl language by some
> people...
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> 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.
--
John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com
"If he has seen farther than others,
it is because he is standing on a stack of dwarves."
--Mike Champion, describing Tim Berners-Lee (adapted)
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