Posted by
Bruce Sherwood on
Aug 18, 2011; 10:21pm
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Yup. Esperanto is rather well known in Brazil (which still means that
the number of Brazilian speakers of Esperanto is small). In fact,
every week (in 10 minutes in fact) I meet on video Skype with
Esperanto-speaking friends I came to know in the Raleigh area when I
was at NCSU (I now live in Santa Fe), and a Brazilian group plans to
join us. However, it's never been the case that Portuguese has had a
major impact on the evolution of Esperanto.
Bruce
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Steve Smith <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> Bruce -
>>
>> Interesting reaction to Esperanto vocabulary, which has no Portuguese
>> roots at all except to the extent that there are many Romance-language
>> roots in Esperanto, which were borrowed mainly from French or Latin
>> forms.
>
> Bruce-
>
> Thanks for the correction...
>
> It has been 30+ years since I studied Esperanto and the reaction is a
> vestige of my naivette at the time having only border Spanish and a
> smattering of Greek/Latin to draw from then.
>
> I might not have known French from Portuguese at the time... though I
> *think* I would have... I certainly do now! Or maybe it was just an
> intuitive affinity alignment for me.... it is likely that I'd never seen,
> or heard any Portuguese until I was introduced to it during my Esperanto
> Class as one of the other Romance-languages which I probably held limited to
> Italian, Spanish, French at the time...
>
> Is there a reason I would have associated Esperanto with Brazil? Did they
> have a strong interest/influence on it?
>
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