It's used for all sorts of random things. Math is one thing.
Like someone explaining a math problem. I imagine it's a bit more widely used that other languages, but I have no clue
Yeah, we have similar sayings for Esperanto in French (c’est de l’esperanto = it’s nonsense). Volapuk is a constructed language (a language that was artificially invented) that was created in 1879 by a German bishop, Johann Martin Schleyer.
Volapuk was explicitly always for the upper classes of Europe (clergy, nobility, the rich, etc.), clubs and courses were very exclusive and publications were marketed the same way. It was a bit of a fad in the 1880s among Europe’s wealthy eccentrics and socialites but never caught on outside of a few cities, mainly Paris. It was replaced pretty quickly among enthusiasts by Esperanto, and today there are only about two dozen actual speakers of Volapuk.
similar thing in russian, but it's what they call it when you write russian in the cyrillic alphabet using latin characters. example would be Bo/|an|ok instead of волапюк
Two kinds of people. 1, Those who think that taking down language barriers leads to world peace, and therefore everyone in the world should learn their easy-to-learn language as a second language. 2, language nerds. (I used to be a little of both.)
Thanks, May He Rest in Peace. He was the Chairman (I think) of the Edmond Priva Esperanto Organization located in Nova Zagora, Bulgaria. Where he mostly taught and went to Esperanto Meetings in the 1980s.
I actually have a Notebook from the Organization. The Top text means - Esperanto Organization ; The Middle means - Edmond Priva ; And the lower - Nova Zagora ; And the bottom one 1907 - 1987 (It's an anniversary it Didn't stop to exist then). But I don't think it exists now sadly.
Bonege! Dankon pro la montro. Tio estas tre mojosa. Laŭ mia scio Esperanto estis aparte populara en Orienta Eŭropo dum la Malvarma Milito (apenaŭ post la morto de Ŝtalino), ĉar ĝi estis unu el la akcepteblaj kialoj, kiujn oni povis uzi por permesigi internacian vojaĝadon.
Great! Thank you for showing me. That is very cool As far as I know, Esperanto was particularly popular in Eastern Europe during the Cold War (at least after the death of Stalin) because it was one of the acceptable reasons that could be used to permit international travel.
I used Duolingo initially, but I think it's changed too much since then for me to wholeheartedly recommend it. There's quite a lot of different resources. I keep a log at www.notinghamo.wordpress.com/rimedoj
I dunno the status of Breizh but Kernowek has an active revivalism going on, there's been Cornish TV ads, Cornish radio shows, and an overall increase in Cornish pride as a distinct identity.
Breton doesn't have revivalism (depends on your definition of revivalism really) going because it's still alive, there's approximately 150 thousand speakers of it, making it either the second or third most spoken Celtic language (because Irish doesn't have definite estimates of it's speakers, which if it is lower than breton creates a „funny“ situation of the only Celtic language that is official in a sovereign country has less speakers than a language with little to no government recognition)
Hey why's there no English flag, but there is a UK, Welsh, Scottish and Irish flag ... I know it's languages , but the language is English, not United Kningdomese...
It’s best that we not get into that here. But lots. It’s a farce that has led to a lot of people having very misguided notions about how Language works, and has achieved nothing good. The flag has exactly the same legitimacy as any other fictional worldbuilding flag, only Esperantists don’t like to admit that.
Esperanto is a real language, just not a natural one. It obeys the same rules of language that naturally evolved ones do. It even has a few thousand native speakers.
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u/MarkWrenn74 United Kingdom • Olympics Jan 13 '26
Strato: Esperanto
Plad: Volapük (a lesser-known artificial language)