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What do you think Esperanto sounds like?

by ceigered, December 21, 2008

Messages: 14

Language: English

SuperMarc92 (User's profile) December 24, 2008, 3:59:59 AM

The word estas really makes esperanto look like spanish.

Polaris (User's profile) December 28, 2008, 6:59:03 AM

I always tell people that it sounds sort of like Italian with a Slavic flavor to it.

ceigered (User's profile) December 28, 2008, 7:11:05 AM

Polaris:I always tell people that it sounds sort of like Italian with a Slavic flavor to it.
Have you heard spoken Romanian before? That fits the description, but it definitely sounds different to Esperanto, probably because it has a grammatical system that is reminiscent of Latin and the Slavic languages (which in turn had a similar grammar system to Latin to begin with). And those grammatical systems generally effect the spoken rhythm IMHO.

69UM24OSU12 (User's profile) December 30, 2008, 4:32:59 AM

To me, the vowel endings on so many of the words plus the consistent stress on the next-to-last syllable give it more the sound and rhythm of a romance language than any of the other choices above

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