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Re:Esperanto, Toki Pona, Swahili, Indonesian by zarzavat on Thursday February 29, 2024 @11:19AM (#39551367)
Swahili and Indonesian were primarily second languages, in the 20th century. But now they are very much first languages as people are learning them from childhood simultaneously with their ethnic language.
Re:Esperanto, Toki Pona, Swahili, Indonesian by kragen on Thursday February 29, 2024 @11:29AM (#39551519)
perhaps we should qualify the claim by pointing out that 20th-century swahili and indonesian are simpler than creoles, but have now been replaced by more complex creoles