From: John Cowan (cowan@mercury.ccil.org)
Date: Tue Aug 19 2003 - 08:50:43 EDT
Jill.Ramonsky@Aculab.com scripsit:
> However, Esperanto was not entirely successful in its goal to become a
> second language for everyone, given that more people speak Klingon than
> Esperanto,
Entirely false. Esperanto speakers are numbered in the millions, including
hundreds, perhaps thousands, who speak it natively. It is a complete
human language with a vocabulary capable of discussing anything, and a
literature including both prose and poetry. Fluent Klingon speakers
probably do not exceed 100, and there is only one native speaker,
who no longer speaks it; the vocabulary is quite limited, as is the
literature.
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