28 May
2013
28 May
'13
12:38 p.m.
Esperanto as defined by Zamenhof violates several
apparent universals
of human language, [...]
Now I'm curious. Which ones, and how?
In addition, there are reports of native speakers of
Esperanto,
defined as children for whom it is the first language, learned in
environments in which only Esperanto was spoken.
I also recall reading of a Lojbanist who tried to raise a child
speaking Lojban natively. IIRC, the child was something like seven at
the time of writing of the piece I saw, and had pretty much stopped
using Lojban. I didn't see anything bearing on the question I find
most interesting, that being whether/how Lojban as spoken natively
differed from Lojban as originally defined.
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