Re: Tactics to bringing a language to life

"Neeraj Mathur" <neemathur@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
I thought that Esperantists claim that using that language somehow
'protects' minority languages - how exactly is that supposed to work if the
above is true?

The claim that Esperanto protects national languages is a recent fad,
which popped up in the last 30 years or so and is used to maximise
funding from European institutions and give Esperantists
respectability at international NGO and governmental events. Before
that, the claim is nowhere to be found. Zamenhof himself said some
really frightful things about language diversity, including wishing
that eventually all national languages would disappear.

Christopher Culver

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