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Esperanto: The artificial language that aimed to unite humanity (bigthink.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (12 children)

Esperanto would be more solid if it weren't so Eurocentric. Idolinguo, one of its forks, solved a few of the issues Esperanto had in regards to grammar, but the Eurocentrism is still there.

[–] Jakylla 4 points 8 months ago

Compared to current Global language that is English, that is still a better option according to this argument

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