Has anyone ever heard of or studied Archaic Esperanto? I just ran into it on Wikipedia and I thought it was interesting. Here's the link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcaicam_Esperantom

I don't ever plan on learning this( like everyone else I'm sure), but it's nice that someone created an "old Esperanto". It makes it seem more... uh... "real", for a lack of a better word. What does everyone else think?

InsaneInter:Has anyone ever heard of or studied Archaic Esperanto?

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It makes it seem more... uh... "real", for a lack of a better word. What does everyone else think?

I intend to learn it when I'm more fluent in the real thing. Popido too. Both look like fun stuff.

Arcaicam Esperantom is a small set of rules you can master in a day. It is not a full-fledged language. I wrote a small (really small!) text in Arcaicam in 2011 when I was comparing Esperanto and its derived languages. You can find that text here.

You will find texts in these languages - Esperanto, Arcaicam Esperanto, Ido, Tomale lingve, Reformed Esperanto (1894), and Romániço.

Demian:Arcaicam Esperantom is a small set of rules you can master in a day. It is not a full-fledged language. I wrote a small (really small!) text in Arcaicam in 2011 when I was comparing Esperanto and its derived languages. You can find that text here.

You will find texts in these languages - Esperanto, Arcaicam Esperanto, Ido, Tomale lingve, Reformed Esperanto (1894), and Romániço.

Just saw it! Great work! Ah, I've heard of reformed Esperanto too. Ever heard of Novial?

InsaneInter:

Demian:Arcaicam Esperantom is a small set of rules you can master in a day. It is not a full-fledged language. I wrote a small (really small!) text in Arcaicam in 2011 when I was comparing Esperanto and its derived languages. You can find that text here.

You will find texts in these languages - Esperanto, Arcaicam Esperanto, Ido, Tomale lingve, Reformed Esperanto (1894), and Romániço.

Just saw it! Great work! Ah, I've heard of reformed Esperanto too. Ever heard of Novial?

Sounds vaguely familiar.

I've seen some stuff about Universal and Poliespo which look interesting - but details are lacking. Reading between the lines, I don't think either was a finished project. Alas.

I am presently working on a short novel in Esperanto and I am using Ido for a character in the novel who doesn't speak the local language (Esperanto).

InsaneInter:Just saw it! Great work! Ah, I've heard of reformed Esperanto too. Ever heard of Novial?

Novial was an international auxiliary language designed by the Danish linguist Otto Jespersen (1920s, I seem to recall). As best I am aware, there were two "versions" (initial and refined). It garnered some interest, and a decade or so ago there was some brief flurry of interest online about reviving it, but so far as I know it never had any great following. From the samples I have seen, I would describe it as yet one more of what the late Donald Harlow termed euroclones (the only ones of which that have ever really gone anywhere at all are Interlingua and Occidental).

bartlett22183:

InsaneInter:Just saw it! Great work! Ah, I've heard of reformed Esperanto too. Ever heard of Novial?

Novial was an international auxiliary language designed by the Danish linguist Otto Jespersen (1920s, I seem to recall). As best I am aware, there were two "versions" (initial and refined). It garnered some interest, and a decade or so ago there was some brief flurry of interest online about reviving it, but so far as I know it never had any great following. From the samples I have seen, I would describe it as yet one more of what the late Donald Harlow termed euroclones (the only ones of which that have ever really gone anywhere at all are Interlingua and Occidental).

Yes, that info's correct! Just looked it up on Wiki. Too bad Novial's pretty useless, because I think it's the most interesting. But there's an online course for it.

I saw this also not too long ago. Adds depths to the linguistic history, even if it's fictional.

WeekzGod:I saw this also not too long ago. Adds depths to the linguistic history, even if it's fictional.

Looks like Polish to me! I don't think I'll learn it!