• spittingimage@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Esperanto. It’s an artificial language designed to be easy to learn and communicate in. Although it’s worth noting that there are esperanto dialects and speakers of one don’t necessarily understand speakers of another.

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      Although it’s worth noting that there are esperanto dialects and speakers of one don’t necessarily understand speakers of another.

      WHAT!? OK biggest failure of an artificial language in my book then

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      I think it is easy, but I speak only european languages. Not sure if it is really easier or I just feel that is easy because I know the languages I do.

      I would love to say mandarin/chinese, but tonal languages scares me.

      I made a grammar rule set (not a complete conlang yet) where verbs don’t need to be conjugated, and information about time is separated from the verb; A new lingua franca, IMHO, should not have verb conjugation.