Part 06 - Esperanto is the language of the future.

[mechatech70]

I doubt Esperanto will ever become the second language of everybody. But I do believe it will become far more popular than it is once English has stopped being so important (which is GOING to happen. Look at Latin. Same thing), and people start looking for a more neutral language.

[RainingAshes1]

Esperanto sounds like Italian

[bletanian]

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[orisho1975]

Sounds ugly, a made language with no cultural root, will never be that strong as they think it will be! Music will never match the Esperanto. language get into people by culture, sound and music, Mandarin is the most spoken language.and most of people nowadays learn English or Spanish or both because the way they feel it by it's culture and music. Hebrew, Arabic and Greek are great languages with great civilization, but their culture and is not well flavored it by the others, not contagious..

[HailCthulhu]

It is indeed eccentric. By the time any would-be global language has wiped out the competition (which will happen because entire populations won't learn unnecessary languages), it will have long since split up, in part because of the substratum languages and changes ever so slowly creeping in. That's what happens with living languages, like Esperanto is boasted to be. Technology can only slow, not stop, change.

And sharing a language clearly doesn't prevent fights between monoglots.

[MrBrandini]

@HailCthulhu

Your argument is filled with logical fallacies. Languages evolve due to isolation, we live in a modern world, Esperanto is not able to split off like Latin did.

[HailCthulhu]

Wrong. Neither the written word, television, nor the internet can stop change. Sound changes and grammar changes occur just as much in languages with official academies. The only languages that don't change much are the ones spoken by a handful of people and dead ones.

The internet isn't stopping the ever increasing divergence in English, French, Arabic, Spanish, etc. dialects just like television didn't.

And isolation isn't the only way.

I don't think you know what logical fallacies are.

[TheMontageBW]

@MrBrandini That is the exact opposite of what happens. Isolated languages change the least. This can be seen in the minority Indic or Tibetan languages, which haven't changed in hundreds of years. Compare this to English, which through international exposure and mass communication has changed tremendously over a span of a few decades.

Esperanto did split off. It's called Ido.

[MrBrandini]

@TheMontageBW

You mistunderstood what I meant. Isolation from the original language, similar to evolution. Let's say a group of these Tibetan speakers were moved to a diferent part of the world for a couple centuries, when reunited they wouldn't speak the same language

Esperanto did not naturally split off, some guy just wrote a different version of it. I think at most it only had a couple of hundred of speakers, most of them fluent in Esperanto.

[kuckividas]

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