"Jay Bowks" jjbowks@adam.cheshire.net schrieb:
The Ethnologue lists http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=827 Esperanto, Europanto, and Interlingua. It further mentions that Interlingua is a language of France... http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=INR It also claims that Esperanto is a language of France, and that it has "200 to 2,000 people who speak it as first language". If so it would be a natural and non-artificial language for them wouldn't it, those French native speakers of Esperanto.... Highly irregular!
As strange as it may sound, it is not fully nonsense. As I understand, our own contributor and Steward Arno Lagrange grew up in a family where Esperanto was the language spoken at home, and thus can be considered a native speaker of the language.
Andre Engels