tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 08 10:51:59 2007
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Re: Klingon wikipedia!
- From: Doq <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Klingon wikipedia!
- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 13:34:01 -0500
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ngeDmeH Esperanto chenmoHlu'. DajmeH tlhIngan Hol chenmoHlu'.
Doq
On Jan 6, 2007, at 4:07 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> In a message dated 1/6/2007 1:56:54 PM Central Standard Time,
> [email protected]
> writes:
>
>> The difference is that there are roughly 20.000 Klingon speakers
>> (thinking
>> positive) but over 15 million Esperanto speakers.
>>
>> pImqu' jatlhwI' mI': Esperanto jatlh wa'maHvagh 'uy' ghot, 'ach
>> tlhIngan Hol
>> ghoj cha'maH SaD neH, 'ej 'oH jatlhchu' 'op neH.
>>
>> But Esperanto was created over 120 years ago, while Klingon was
>> just 20
>> years ago. So I hope that maybe the number of Klingon speakers
>> might grow, one
>> day. How many Esperanto speakers were there 20 years after it was
>> created?
>> The only disadvantage that we have is the lack of vocabulary.
>>
>
> I'd say your estimates of the number of speakers is an order of
> magnitude too
> high, but it's still a valid point.
>
> Esperanto grew very fast in its early years, so I'd guess there
> were several
> thousand speakers on Esperanto's 20th birthday.
>
> lay'tel SIvten
>
>
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