Re: TERMINOLOGY: Re: another new language to check out
| From: | Tim May <butsuri@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 1, 2004, 20:45 |
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Joe wrote at 2004-07-01 20:06:19 (+0100)
> Christophe Grandsire wrote at 2004-07-01 21:01:13 (+0200)
> >>
> >> En réponse à Chris Bates :
> >>
> >>
> >>> Is it still a pidgin? I've been waiting for it to creolize
> >>> before I try learning it. :( Only problem is, you need a
> >>> community who actually use the language regularly for that to
> >>> happen....
> >>
> >>
> >> In my experience, it has never been a pidgin (but that's not a
> >> problem, quite a few creoles around here have had no pidgin
> >> state). Creole is not quite the right word, but fits if you're
> >> not too strict about its definition.
> >>
> >
> >
>
> Surely, a Creole is a Pidgin that is spoken as a firstl language by
> some people...
>
> Is Esperanto?
>
Well, it's never been a pidgin as such, so no. But there _are_ L1
speakers of Esperanto, if that's what you're asking.
See e.g.
http://www.livejournal.com/community/linguaphiles/509204.html