Possibility of reviving languages, Hebrew-style

Viri Amaoro   Tue May 09, 2006 12:05 am GMT
I've thought about this many times, perhaps it would be possible to turn an artificial language like Esperanto into a natural one, just like in the case of Hebrew.

If one could find enough Esperanto speakers willing to live in an Esperanto-speaking environment, in a given geographic location and raising successive generations to speak the language, life, sort of speak, could be given to a seeming artificial, un-natural, dead language.

Therefore, when people around the world felt the need to learn Esperanto they would have an established "living" standard for the language.

This would be a major breakthrough for the language.
Ed   Tue May 09, 2006 12:49 am GMT
the Cornish language has been revived over the last few decades after being extinct since the 18th century. There are now several thousand speakers and even a few tens of people who are considered native speakers as they have been brought up speaking the language.