Top 5 Fictional Languages

Nov 30 2022

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Today, Esperanto can be seen as an alternative means of international communication, free from the political and historical implications that using any natural language come with. Despite these goals, the vocabulary, orthography, semantics, and phonology of Esperanto all have European origins, drawing inspiration from Romance, Germanic, and Slavic languages. It has an official Wikipedia with over 230,000 articles and can be learned in various language schools. But, in order to compete with the international reach of English which has nearly 950 million speakers, Esperanto still has some way to go.

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