is esperanto alive?

Answer 1

Nope - it's a useless language that has no history, country, economy, literature, or culture to back it up.

Esperanto interest peaked at least a generation ago. I have traveled to many countries and have never once seen a sign in Esperanto or advertising tours in Esperanto.

English is now the de facto "world" or international language. If two people meet who speak different first languages - the language they are most likely to use to communicate with each other is English --- I've seen this many times, even when a Korean meets a Japanese or Chinese person, he will try to talk to them in (broken) English.

Other regional international languages exist -
Russian - for Northern and Central Asia.
German for central Europe
Spanish for every place south of the US.
Chinese for all of China (includes Xinjiang and Tibet) and much of southeast Asia.

Knowing any of those languages is opens up 100 times more than knowing Esperanto.

Last time I checked, the number of Esperanto speakers was far less than a million. So - Esperanto is basically dead and useless.

Answer 2

I know that my firend took the courses for esperanto 10 years ago , but since then I've never heard of courses or someone using it.But this is what I know:
Although no country has adopted the language officially, it has enjoyed continuous usage by a community estimated at between 100,000 and 2 million speakers and it is estimated that there are about a thousand native speakers.

Today, Esperanto is employed in world travel, correspondence, cultural exchange, conventions, literature, language instruction, television (Internacia Televido) and radio broadcasting. Some state education systems offer elective courses in Esperanto; there is evidence that learning Esperanto is a useful preparation for later language learning .

Answer 3

Esperanto is very alive. There are many of us out here who speak Esperanto. I began learning the language in 2000, could hold simple but meaningful conversations within 2 months, and was fluent within 2 years (and I'm pretty slow with languages).

There is a world-wide Esperantist organization (UEA - Universala Esperanto-Asocio) and there are also yearly conventions of Esperanto Speakers from all over the world as well as annual conventions for just about every country on earth. This year's U.S. annual convention was held in New York City. Last year's was in Austin, Texas, next year's will be in San Diego, California.

Since Esperanto is a constructed language (I don't agree with the term "artificial", there is nothing in the language that is artificial. Everything in the language was taken from other European languages. A more accurate description would be a constructed All-European pidgin language) and is not the national language of any country, there is no way to know exactly how many people speak it. We know some facts, there are more than 200,000 speakers in the world (the number of people who are members of Esperanto clubs in the world), and we know that there are many more people who speak the language who are not club members. I ran into a man in an Esperanto Chat room a few weeks ago who lives in California, but is not a member of ELNA or UEA. Most Esperantists accept the approximation of 2 Million esperantists in the world.

There are also a few hundred Denaskaj Esperantistoj (From-Birth Esperantists) or people who's families spoke Esperanto at home, so it is their "native" language. They are born to couples who met via Esperanto, but with different native languages, so in their homes they speak Esperanto as the family language. I know one family (Mom, Dad, and three children) in New York who speak Esperanto at home, and their children are in this catagory.

Answer 4

Esperanto has more speakers than many minority languages.

Answer 5

see omigo. May yomma esperanto. como say yoma?

odios senirita.