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What's your opinion on Esperanto (language)? (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 10 months ago by NateNate60@lemmy.world to c/socialism@lemmy.ml

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Apparently the language was popular among early 20th century socialist movements because it was of an international character and therefore not associated with any nationality and its use by international socialist organisations wouldn't show favour to any particular country. It was banned in Nazi Germany and other fascist states because of its association with the left wing, with anti-nationalism, and because its creator was Jewish. It has mostly languished since then but still has around 2 million speakers with about 1,000 native speakers.

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[–] Kociamorda@szmer.info 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm learning it too! With my husband - we even had an oath in esperanto on our wedding ;)

I really appreciate the simplicity of Esperanto - it has no exceptions and easy suffixes and no grammatical gender.

By the way, I wonder how and why there are many esperanto speakers in China and Japan (since it's euro-centric).

Saluton!

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Saluton! That's really cool! And yeah, I've heard the same, not sure about that.

[–] Leisureguy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Saluton! My understanding is that Oomoto, a Japanese-based religion, uses Esperanto a lot. Also, China has had for a long time an active Esperanto movement (partly for propaganda purposes).

[–] Kociamorda@szmer.info 1 points 2 weeks ago

Bonan tagon! Dankon pro tio kuriozaĵo. I've never heard about Oomoto. Esperanto is so widespread that it can suprise me even after that long time.