Without doing any research, can you tell me what Experanto is?
2006-08-08 18:43:17 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
It's an invented language, meant to be an international language (but English took on that role instead). It's vocabulary is largely derived from the Romance languages. If you can read French, Spanish, Italian, etc., you can probably catch on to it without too much difficulty. Here is the first part of the Lord's Prayer in Esperanto: "Patro nia, kiu estas en la cielo, sankta estu via nomo."
2006-08-08 18:47:03 · answer #1 · answered by monkey 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is an invented language, intended as a very simplistic one where a word would have only one meaning and one inflection. It was not, as often reported, created to simplify communications between cultures, but as an exercise in showing the difficulty in such communications. A lot of what a word or phrase means is tied up in the way it said. Take, as an example, the phrase "Oh really" which depending on the tone this can be a question, a statement, an acknowledgment, sarcasm, or affirmative action.
As a note of trivia, William Shatner is supposed to have filmed a movie entirely in Esperanto, although by your rules I can't tell you which one.
2006-08-09 02:44:51 · answer #2 · answered by Aurthor D 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Esperanto is an invented language made up of various modern languages. The inventor, designer, hoped that it would facilitate better communication world wide by becoming the international language.
2006-08-09 01:48:15 · answer #3 · answered by quietwalker 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is an artificial language with first work published in 1887 by Ludovic L. Zamenhof.
It is one of the only marginally successful artificial languages created (the others including among others, Klingon) with more than 100,000 fluent speakers (some estimating up to 2 million partially fluent speakers).
It is based principally off of the Romance language group (Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan*, and Romanian)
2006-08-09 01:55:45 · answer #4 · answered by iwantaprofilenamealready 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes and yes.
Esperanto is a language, but not of any country or ethnic group: it is a neutral, international language.
I speak esperanto! ;D
2006-08-09 03:05:09 · answer #5 · answered by Fajro 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As others have pointed out, it was touted as 'a universal language', designed to be familiar enough to all languages to be easy to learn by everyone.
I learned to speak a little of it, but I could never find anyone else interested in learning it.
2006-08-09 01:51:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I've heard about it. It an invented language that's like a mishmash of some other languages.
2006-08-09 01:47:47 · answer #7 · answered by i luv teh fishes 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It was meant to be a universal language. Never really caught on.
2006-08-09 01:46:52 · answer #8 · answered by dr.timbo 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Is Experrato the spanish show abt the girl who was blind and became unblind but her boyfriend became blinded and when his child toughed his face he was able to see again and him and Experanto got marrage
2006-08-09 01:48:24 · answer #9 · answered by neville 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have. It was some sort of language. I can't remember too much about it.
2006-08-09 01:46:54 · answer #10 · answered by robee 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋