patrik:

@dukemasuya: Thanks for appreciating my posts. Doing business in Esperanto is not a new idea. (Beaufront raised that issue since the early days, and some are doing it in the Internet, if I'm right.) As for the possibility of the Fina Venko, I think that indeed, it's not possible within our lifetime, and it does take lots of work. But I have this second thoughts as to is it worth doing. There are thoughts like "What good will it be for Esperanto if it gains the whole world, yet loses its ideals?" That's selfish, I guess.

I read about the Nepal has the esperanto tour agency to handle the esperanto speakers. I felt it is a great idea. Now it is how the esperanto speakers support the business of esperanto speakers. Without economy support, it will not be able to survive long.

EoMy:
I read about the Nepal has the esperanto tour agency to handle the esperanto speakers.

Where did you read this, EoMy? I tried to find it with Google to no avail.

Lunombrulino:

EoMy:
I read about the Nepal has the esperanto tour agency to handle the esperanto speakers.

Where did you read this, EoMy? I tried to find it with Google to no avail.

http://www.acmetravels.com.np

contact person
acme_hari@yahoo.com or
pos.subedi@gmail.com

EoMy:I read about the Nepal has the esperanto tour agency to handle the esperanto speakers. I felt it is a great idea. Now it is how the esperanto speakers support the business of esperanto speakers. Without economy support, it will not be able to survive long.

Agreed. That was the case with Ĝangalo. Well, I don't know exactly how it happened, but if we can learn from its experiences and do something much better, major successes can be much more possible than it is today.

Well, further observations.
[LISTO]
Since becoming an Esperantist, I began to have interest in minority and "exotic" [excuse the term] languages (Nahuatl, Basque, Inuktitut). Well, I do not know if other Esperantists has this interest as well.
Being an Esperantist leads to facing an "avalanche of opinions", that is, you will be inundated with opinions so different and bewildering from your own, that it could be nauseating. It IS nauseating, but also interesting. [/list]

patrik:
[LISTO]
Since becoming an Esperantist, I began to have interest in minority and "exotic" [excuse the term] languages (Nahuatl, Basque, Inuktitut). Well, I do not know if other Esperantists has this interest as well[/list]

Yes. I also have interest in such languages (Persian, Georgian, Armenian, etc.)

I have found that many Esperantists are interested in minority languages, and many Esperantists are interested in supporting the rights of the people who speak minority languages, in order to preserve their cultures. Esperanto speakers see value in cultural and linguistic diversity.

erinja:I have found that many Esperantists are interested in minority languages, and many Esperantists are interested in supporting the rights of the people who speak minority languages, in order to preserve their cultures. Esperanto speakers see value in cultural and linguistic diversity.

UNESCO has a UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. Furthermore I remember that the UN had a press information that every 14 days a minority language disappears worldwide means the language access key to culture experiences and views etc. are disappearing. (Interesting for me: Bavarian is marked "vulnerable" and Sorbian "definitely endangered". So one day the "B" of BMW could be historical? Hhm.)

I think that we really need more resources for people from small, isolated language communities to learn Esperanto. They'd benefit the most from the internacia lingvo.

Too bad I don't speak any of these languages .

qwertz:UNESCO has a UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. Furthermore I remember that the UN had a press information that every 14 days a minority language disappears worldwide means the language access key to culture experiences and views etc. are disappearing. (Interesting for me: Bavarian is marked "vulnerable" and Sorbian "definitely endangered". So one day the "B" of BMW could be historical? Hhm.)

Oh goodness, I searched the US on that... that's really, really depressing.

Pharoah:I think that we really need more resources for people from small, isolated language communities to learn Esperanto. They'd benefit the most from the internacia lingvo.

Too bad I don't speak any of these languages .

Their isolated and small languages would also be most at risk from the internacia lingvo; if they suddenly all spoke Esperanto and had a much bigger range of people to speak to, there's less of a use for their "family" language. So it's a win-win and yet a win-lose scenario (don't you just love them? )

It's important, I think, that because of this, the world doesn't rush into an international language of any sorts until we're able to get what we can from the languages that aren't already extinct, so that future generations can enjoy them, and so they can be better protected. Each language is essentially a cross between a science journal and an art piece anyway.