Re: [engelang] The future of languages.

 

2012/9/21 John E Clifford <kali9putra@hidden.email>

 

Well, Esperanto has the largest bases and the oldest and best functioning set or organizations speaking in its behalf.  It also has the advantage of being almost familiar to speakers of most of the Western European languages.  Of course, that latter is a disadvantage out of the area where those languages have sway.

 
The problem is that choosing Korean roots for an auxlang would not help Swahili speakers. So, the best solution keeps being to choose the roots that were more spread by colonialism, commerce, influence, etc. Of course, a lot of words from non-European origin ends up appearing anyway: chocolate, jaguar, tsunami, etc.

On the other hand, as the learners of artificial auxlangs would probably be idealistic people at most, having a mix of roots from all continents and "races" might be a point in favor of an auxlang.

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Risto Kupsala