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Loading... Internationale Sprache Vorrede und vollständiges Lehrbuch (edition 1887)by Ludwik Lazar Zamenhof (Author)
Work InformationDr. Esperanto's international language : introduction & complete grammar by L. L. Zamenhof None Loading...
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It is interesting to look at Zamenhof's implicit assumptions. While he speaks about the common man's ability to learn the language (which is essentially true), the text is clearly directed towards highly educated people who know German, French and Latin, so that they easily recognize the roots of a word like "proksimo" - Latin proximus. A person speaking only German would be at a complete loss to understand it, as would a French person faced with sxuldo (Schuld) - debt. Zamenhof hoped to attract the elite to his language which would then trigger the rest to learn his language too.
As with Klingon, Elvish and Dothraki, learning artificial languages remains a minority hobby, thankfully now supported by a Duolingo app (Klingon, though, still a work in progress). ( )