I greatly appreciate the time spent on the Esperanto translations of KDE apps. Though I am not anywhere near fluent yet it really helps my studying to be able to immerse myself in this obscure language. I hope to contribute to translations someday if I manage to achieve fluency. Thank you!

  • TJDetweiler@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    It was supposed to be the “universal language”. According to Wikipedia, up to 100,000 people speak it globally.

    If I remember correctly, it was adopted by the League of Nations, a precursor to NATO, in the early 1900’s.

    Here’s the article if you’re interested. I didn’t really read through it to fact check myself cause I’m poopin’ on break, but there you go.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto

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      5 hours ago

      I’d also like to add Esperanto is the only artificial language with native speakers. Meaning, there are people who speak it as a first language. It has actually been estimated to have as many as 2 million speakers, depending on your source.