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

submitted 9 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 9 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 8 months ago

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

[–] Leisureguy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

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).