Re: TERMINOLOGY: Re: another new language to check out
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 2, 2004, 17:50 |
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On Thursday, July 1, 2004, at 08:06 , Joe wrote:
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> Surely, a Creole is a Pidgin that is spoken as a firstl language by some
> people...
>
> Is Esperanto?
Apparently so. At least some have brought up their kids with E-o as their
L1. But as I know from my grandsons who were brought up bilingually (the
first one, indeed, having French virtually as his L1), when they start
mixing with others the language around them starts to dominate. For both
my grandsons, English is now their L1 & French their L2.
One would like to know how far L1 Esperanto kids maintain Esperanto as L1
as they grow older.
Ray
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