Esperanto language in Indonesia? How many Esperanto spoken at the world? Can Esperanto be Int. language?

Answer 1

There are Esperanto speakers in almost every country in the world, so there are definitely some in Indonesia. You can check out http://esperanto.net/info/index_id.html. Also the Worldwide Esperanto Association has a delegate in Pakem Jogjakarta. If you want to seriously learn the language I can write to him for you (in general the delegate network is for members of the organization, but I will be happy to write a letter to put you in contact if you are learning the language).

There are at least several hundred thousand Esperanto speakers in the world, and possibly as many as a couple million. You can travel all over the world and meet interesting people from the local place without experiencing any language problems, and seeing things that typical tourists would have no chance to see.

Esperanto has proven itself in real use to be capable of fulfilling its purpose of serving as a simple and expressive means of international communication for more than a hundred years. Esperanto is around ten times easier to learn than any national language, and it is possible to attain a fluency in it that is almost always impossible for non-native learners of other foreign languages. International meetings held in Esperanto are the only ones held in true freedom and equality. All other possible solutions (English or another national language, simultaneous or non-simultaneous translation, etc.) are gravely inferior to the quality of communication that is available with Esperanto.

Regarding the above poster, Esperanto in fact is quite different structurally from the typical Indo-European languages, and has quite a bit in common structurally with languages such as Chinese. The only thing really European about Esperanto is its vocabulary, which is ultimately a pretty superficial thing.

You can learn Esperanto and everything about it at http://lernu.net

Answer 2

Esperanto is an easy language to learn (even for us Anglosaxons) and it has elements of Latin, Germanic and Slavonic languages. The problem is that it is not quite so straightforward for those people whose mother tongue is not an Indo-european one and whose own language therefore has a completely different structure, such as Turkish, Hungarian, Finnish, Japanese, Chinese and most African and native American languages.

Answer 3

Sorry, don't know about your first two questions, but though Esperanto's been around for a long time and was a neat idea, it's never caught on. It looks far too latin for us Anglo-Saxons.