Today is Esperanto Day – here’s why I learned it

Re:Today is Esperanto Day – here’s why I learned it by drugme on Saturday December 15, 2018 @12:50PM (#18689419)

Note that such a language would not actually need to be actively spoken in normal life much.

Almost by definition - if a language isn't "spoken much" - it isn't really language. But rather a collection of rules and definitions.

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Re:Today is Esperanto Day – here’s why I learned it by chillacy on Saturday December 15, 2018 @02:27PM (#18689901)

Latin isn't spoken much and we still call it a language: a dead language. Esperanto is still spoken, it's just a particularly uncommon (but not even the smallest) language.

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Re:Today is Esperanto Day – here’s why I learned it by drugme on Monday December 17, 2018 @02:01PM (#18701178)

OK, I'll correct myself:

"If a language is (or never has been) spoken much..."

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Re:Today is Esperanto Day – here’s why I learned it by em-bee on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @01:03AM (#18704818)

http://jbr.me.uk/ranto/m.html gives a better definition of a dead language: one that does not naturally evolve because it does not have any native speakers, but only second language speakers.

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