http://carlosquiles.com/indo-european-language-blog/2006/12/esperanto-vs-europaio/ Proto-Indo-European Language, Indo-European Languages & European Union Language Policy Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:59:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://carlosquiles.com/indo-european-language-blog/2006/12/esperanto-vs-europaio/comment-page-1/#comment-176 Miland Joshi Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:18:21 +0000 http://carlosquiles.com/blog/?p=10#comment-176 If 'artificial' means man-made, that applies to all languages. Esperanto is an evolving living language, not confined to the 'erudite'. At World Congresses the entertainment side (which is also conducted in Esperanto) is probably much more popular than the 'erudite' meetings. Esperanto was early on handed over to the community by the inventor so as to allow evolution. It was Volapuk's inventor who tried to make himself the sole owner (and failed). Esperanto has now been around for over 100 years, and the number of competitors speaking the 'infinite' rivals are actually 'infinitesimal' by comparison. One reason is that it underwent much more rigorous testing by real circumstances than its rivals, before or since. It emerged as a response to ethnic conflict in Bialytock, Zamenhof's birthplace and underwent considerable testing - including the burning of the inventor's papers by his father (fearful of Tsarist poersecution) and hence its forced reconstruction from scratch and more retesting - before its initial publication. Stalin called it the 'language of spies' and put Esperantists in the gulags (so that Solzhenitsyn mentioned them), Hitler called it a 'Jewish plot' and acted accordingly, and dictators generally don't like it. But it survives. If ‘artificial’ means man-made, that applies to all languages. Esperanto is an evolving living language, not confined to the ‘erudite’. At World Congresses the entertainment side (which is also conducted in Esperanto) is probably much more popular than the ‘erudite’ meetings. Esperanto was early on handed over to the community by the inventor so as to allow evolution. It was Volapuk’s inventor who tried to make himself the sole owner (and failed). Esperanto has now been around for over 100 years, and the number of competitors speaking the ‘infinite’ rivals are actually ‘infinitesimal’ by comparison.
One reason is that it underwent much more rigorous testing by real circumstances than its rivals, before or since. It emerged as a response to ethnic conflict in Bialytock, Zamenhof’s birthplace and underwent considerable testing – including the burning of the inventor’s papers by his father (fearful of Tsarist poersecution) and hence its forced reconstruction from scratch and more retesting – before its initial publication. Stalin called it the ‘language of spies’ and put Esperantists in the gulags (so that Solzhenitsyn mentioned them), Hitler called it a ‘Jewish plot’ and acted accordingly, and dictators generally don’t like it. But it survives.

]]> http://carlosquiles.com/indo-european-language-blog/2006/12/esperanto-vs-europaio/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Esperanto or English » Is Esperanto the best option for the European Union as a neutral language? Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:46:23 +0000 http://carlosquiles.com/blog/?p=10#comment-11 [...] case Indo-European - or, better, a modern reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European. The article is Esperanto vs. Europaio?: * Esperanto is an artifcial language invented by one man, as there are hundreds of them. Europaio [...] [...] case Indo-European – or, better, a modern reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European. The article is Esperanto vs. Europaio?: * Esperanto is an artifcial language invented by one man, as there are hundreds of them. Europaio [...]

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