01: Speaking a single language won’t bring about world peace
Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics
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Esperanto
The only esperanto word i know is the word hotch dogger. I tried learning it when i was like 12, because i encountered this book about it on a bookshelf. Zamin hof, who's the guy who created esperanto, did try to draw on multiple languages. So kai comes from greek. The word for man is like homo, or something like homo sapiens. And then the word for woman is homino e, which is just like in suffox.
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