Esperanto and the Search for a Global Language

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt

History, Education

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Around 1887, a Polish ophthalmologist set out to create a universal language. A language that could be a second language for everyone around that world that no one country or one people would control. It was a good idea, but things didn’t quite pan out as he had hoped, and along the way, there was shockingly violent resistance to the new language. Learn more about Esperanto, how it was developed and its status in the world today, on this episode of ĉio ĉie ĉiutage. -------------------------------- Diversify your portfolio by investing in fine art with Masterworks. Visit https://www.masterworks.io/ -------------------------------- Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/ Everything Everywhere is an Airwave Media podcast." or "Everything Everywhere is part of the Airwave Media podcast network Please contact [email protected] to advertise on Everything Everywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In the
0:02.0	1880s, a Polish optimologist set out to create a universal language,
0:05.0	a language that could be a second language for everyone around the world
0:08.0	that no country or no one people could control.
0:11.0	It was a good idea, but things didn't quite pan out as he had hoped, and along the way,
0:15.3	there was a shockingly violent resistance to this new idea.
0:19.5	Learn more about Esperanto, how it was developed and its status in the world today on this episode of
0:24.7	Geo Chio Tagee. Depending on how you define a language versus a dialect, most linguists claim that there are
0:46.7	about 7,000 languages in the world today.
0:49.7	The vast majority of these languages are spoken by a very small number of people. So the
0:54.6	number of languages by speakers is actually very top-heavy. There are currently
0:59.0	only 15 languages that are spoken by more than a hundred million people.
1:03.0	If you get down to the hundredth most spoken language, there are only around ten million speakers.
1:08.0	So even if we were to only look at the top languages,
1:11.0	there are still more languages than even the most talented polygots could ever possibly learn.
1:16.0	The idea of a universal language isn't a crazy idea, at least in theory.
1:21.0	If there could be one universal tongue that everyone could speak, even if they spoke their
1:24.8	native language at home, it would certainly solve many problems in the world.
1:28.8	However, what language would you use?
1:31.6	There's no one language that has anything close to a majority of
1:34.8	speakers. You could use a dead language like Latin but that has its own set of
1:39.0	problems as well. The solution to this problem for one Polish
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