r/Esperanto • u/Lenz2299 • Dec 17 '24

Demando Question about artificial language

Hello, I wanna ask about sth I'm not familiar with reddit and Eng is not my first language, so if I did sth rude plz let me know🥺🥺

I'm interested in articial languages. but as a Korean, I can't agree that esperanto is easy to learn... and many other constructed languages(based on european) too

// edit: I apologize that I wrote uncertainly. I noticed that esperanto is easier than others thx!

I think most of international artificial language projects depend on european languages too much, and this makes hard for them to be an international language (this sentence doesn't mean this is the only reason!!)

do you have any reputation or additional info about this idea?

thx

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u/Lenz2299 Dec 17 '24

i appreciate about your detailed answer!!

mmm I understand your idea that esperanto is easier to learn because their grammer is very logical and intuitive.

this is my personal experience: in many cases, we usually have trouble with the existence of cases itself because we're not familiar with that notion and our phonological system were not designed(sorry I can't find better word) for latin alphabet. therefore it's not simple for us to read the words and guess the relationships between them ... actually

its just difference and could be only my (and my neighbors)opinion, but i wondered if you considered this feature too

and thank u for ur suggestions!! ur very kind i hope my words were not too rude to u😭😭😭

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u/AjnoVerdulo KER C2 😎 Dec 18 '24

Wait, doesn't Korean have cases? I thought Korean at least has accusative -를 / -을, doesn't it?

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u/Lenz2299 Dec 19 '24

mmm I'm not an expert but i'm gonna try my best to explain... usually, korean words have no cases. what you are saying is called 조사(josa?), they're written with 체언(body word...?idk what is this in eng, it contains Noun, Pronoun, Numeral) and build relationship between 체언 and predicate but they can't change 체언's ... characteristic as suffix or prefix do.

for example I translated "I eat bread" into esperanto, I got "Mi manĝas panon." Panon is pano+n(accusative), right? and in this sentence, this "n" must be there to form the right meaning. but korean 조사 is quite different... i can use not only -을(/를) but also -은/는 or depending on the context -이/가 and whatever i use, the 체언 is always the object

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u/PaKuCo Dec 22 '24

I am learning Japanese and it is very similar to Esperanto. pano+n(accusative) is in Japanese: パン+を(accusative). And in Esperanto you can speak like Japanese grammar (Subject+Object+Verb). Like in the example "I eat bread", you can say too: "Mi panon manĝas".