Example sentences for: esperanto

How can you use “esperanto” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It is a made-up language like Pidgin and, unlike Esperanto or Volapük, is based on a real tongue, Nguni, related to Zulu and Xhosa.

  • Quite a few universal languages have been invented over the past few centuries, and a couple, like Esperanto, have dedicated users even today (Esperanto serves as an auxiliary language--it's no one's native tongue).

  • If Esperanto is aspiring to become a “real” language, then it must begin to behave like one and, before long, it will begin to suffer the same “weaknesses” that natural languages suffer--polysemy and pleurisemy.

  • The lingua franca of commercial America has done what Esperanto could not: achieve universality.

  • Before you know it, you are saying to yourself, “Why should I bother to learn a whole new grammer and vocabulary of Esperanto when I can learn some sort of lingua franca (English or French, for example) which at least has an extensive literature to offer?


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