Not actively
I do believe we should try to preserve languages and keep recordings, writings, etc. of dying ones. But if a language is going to die, well, there isn't much we can do, but sometimes you can bring them back.
I do want to learn Irish Gaelic, though.
Yes, I am currently learning Armenian so that I can aid in preserving the rapidly dwindling language. There are several million people who speak it currently, but that will change within the next 50 years, and it will eventually die altogether.
>>13
I didn't realize until recently that there were native esperanto speakers. That kind of cracks me up.
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Anonymous2010-09-19 18:35
>>17
This kinda defeat all reason to learn Europanto [ooops, Esperanto.]
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Anonymous2010-09-21 13:32
>>17
George Soros is a native Esperanto speaker ("denaskulo").
I'm fluent in Esperanto.
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Anonymous2010-09-21 14:04
Donkey Kongonese is on the verge of collapse. Please rescue it by only sounding out the vowels of your native language as per the example provided below:
>>25
Because it's fucking gay. The speakers act like it's the next lingua franca and that it's some magical perfect neutral auxlang, when it's not. Seriously, I'd rather learn a natural lang.
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Anonymous2010-10-28 8:05
Esperanto is probably easy enough for Eurofags, but I don't think that it would really work for an international language. It's only spoken by a rather small number of enthusiasts. For my money, go with English. It's taught in most countries in the world, and has been the de facto language of business and the official language of aviation. Esperanto isn't taught by any government as a second language, it's not used in business, not used in any field of knowledge. If you want to play with language, esperanto is fine -- but no more useful than sinderin or quenya.