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Conlangery #27: Irregularity

Conlangery Podcast

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The Eurocentricity of Esperanto

Esperanto is not just Eurocentric, as it sounds distinctly Slavic to me. The grammar is 100% weird and its own thing. Esperanto is extremely fastidious about the distinction between a transitive and an intransitive verb. It tends to express itself in ways that are not natural to most European languages because of the agglutative nature of the grammar. I was surprised to realize when I was looking at words that it actually has initial KV right.

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