Thanks, France!

The fact that this is an English-language video about the Esperanto language speaks volumes about which language ultimately prevailed

Man that reporter went home early

It's always the french.

the worst language in existance source: i am hyper giga chad polyglot (self proclaimed)

Esperanto is colonialism -- it is an absurd attempt to establish Europe as the centre of the world

What Esperanto was trying to do was to go against nationalism in the era of the height of nationalist movements, which was the period from 1848 to the middle of the 20th century. In other words, Esperanto, due to its very conception, already had a huge uphill battle to fight. However, this was not their fatal error. Clearly, the main cause of Esperanto's failure was that the movement became inseparable from international socialism. The truth is that the movement's creators did not have the foresight not to cling to an ideological baggage that was admittedly antagonistic to the interests of the traditional and capitalist elites. The fact that Esperanto, due to this baggage, failed to successfully captivate the French intellectual elites, the more "liberal" ones, and the British ones, was what mortally wounded the movement. What the fascists and Soviets did was simply to finish off the dying body that was Esperanto. And in the post wars, clearily the USA would keep the spoils that was to lead the international order in theirs terms.

So many people make the mistake of thinking it's ok to use english (or spanish) as ligua franca of the world. Not many of them realize that with language comes also culture, that in the end will dominate all the native cultures.

this reminds me of that Atlantic English thing that failed.

I invended languages. Plenty of them. I am the only one to speak them.

This website is full of propaganda. They were right to ban it. It seeks not to unify, but to erase. Like an invasive fish species it consumes the local languages and takes over. Seems like one big ponzi scheme that got out of hand, I wonder how much money pledges cost. Amazing how this random channel pops up with only this video trying to hype up something that would have destroyed cultures everywhere and still might. World peace my asss!!! Sometimes barriers keep peace more than breaking them down, respecting each others languages and appreciating the differences is what keeps people humble and kind. Often language is used as a weapon to brainwash, to confuse, and mislead, much like the media using English as a weapon with fancy words, clickbait, and sensationalism. Often a seemingly neutral method of peace is still controlled by someone with devious motives, a trojan horse seeking to fool the vulnerable as a false saviour.

I hope French is enjoying being the language of diplomacy, oh wait...

9:56 I'm pretty sure the most spoken constructed language is Italian

7:02 truer words were never written

One really ironic correction: 10:12 "what me and you speak" should be "what we both speak" or "what you and I speak" ;) great video though

Interesting story. However now, thanks to the internet, english proliferation, news reporters that travel around the world and even tools like automatic translators we know for sure: Being able to understand what others say DOES NOT BRING PEACE. Nice try Mr Zamenhof, you had the best of intentions, but your fundamental assumption is wrong.

For non-Europeans, this sounds like just yet another European language we're forced to learn.

I hate snobbish francophones who circlejerk to their language

thats why i refuce to learn fr*nch, and thankfully it got replaced

Good movie

Author Harry Harrison employed some Esperanto in his Stainless Steel Rat novels.

Esperanto still lives on in the comic series Saga!

Post la unuaj sep sekundoj mi estis ĝenata pro gravaj malprecizaĵoj (ekz. en 1887 estis la rusa imperio, ne Sovetio), sed finspektinte mi devas diri, ke mi ĝenerale ege ŝatis. Tiu ĉi filmeto estas unu el plej belaj resumoj pri la historio de Esperanto, kiujn mi spektis iam ajn. La enhavo estas pristudita kaj la realigo estas imprese arta. Dankon kaj gratulojn al Dis-ambi por tiu ĉi bela omaĝo al nia lingvo! 💚

"Sukcesante forigi ĉiujn malhelpojn al komunikado kaj igi ĉiujn kapablajn komuniki kun ĉiuj aliaj en la universo, sen miskomprenoj, la Babela Fiŝo kaŭzis pli, pli sangajn, kaj pli detruajn militojn ol io ajn en la historio de la universo."

Currently The USA is a failing empire, it’ll be interesting to see if another language replaces it or if Esperanto will try to take the seat.

people are immature and stupid? you don't say?

Bonvolu alsendi la pordiston? Lausajne estas rano en mia bideo!

It would never have worked out, creating an artificial language for ideological reasons is never gonna beat overabundance of compelling content from natural languages, or practical motivations like "I need to know this to function here". But it was a fun experiment nonetheless.

All languages are made up, you ponce.

all languages are made up

When you think about it, aren't all languages made up?

Thanks France

It would work but again politics, marxists always want to hook up on so many ideas yet being so dishonest about their own ideology. A world peace while calling for world revolution? Achieving peace through war? It was said before and it was a lie. How they would peacefully dismantle hierarchies without punishing those who practice even the smallest of hierarchies so they would maintain consistent? Thats why every marxist state ends up as a totalitarian dictatorship, its collectivist and idealistic zealotry will always push for monsters to take power that will make good ideas butched in blood of oppressive revolution. Sad part is that this along fascism is on the rise nowadays.

Funny thing is the rules of this language is pretty much the same as Afrikaans. There are no masculine or feminine nouns, everything is neutral There are only 3 simple and consistant tenses (past, present and future) It only uses (is), no (am, is, are), no (ben, is, zijn) - For example: " _Ek is, jy is, die hond is_ " ( " _I am, jou are, the dog is_ " )

Dankon pro la filmeto!

Take the Esperanto framework and produce a "simplified", English, French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Mandarin .... 500-1000 words should do it. One months effort to understand and be understandable? Frequency dictionaries are a good start. Pareto's Law at 10%? Doable.

It just sounds like mexican to me

Esperanto has got the exact same rules I would apply if I had to come up with a universal language. "Masculine", "Feminine", "Singular", "Plural" are all concepts that are obvious from what you are describing, so there is no point in having special grammar rules to explain them. For example, "two girls" are definitively more than one female being, so why do you need to add "s"? And - I know this is not applicable to English - why in other languages it is necessary to modify all words to say that girl is feminine? It is feminine by the very nature of the word. Objects don't have a gender, so there is no point having feminine or masculine. Multiple verb tenses can help expressing complicated situations; however 99% of the time you only need past, present and future. Some languages actually use only present and past - where the future is the same as present. All conditional and subjunctive tenses can be expressed with a combination of the above, to finish off the last 1% of cases you need more complex expressions. Building the words using blocks is a similar concept of German, Chinese, Korean and Japanese: makes the meaning of the word very obvious in most cases or anyway very easy to remember, so yes, it is a great strategy.

Everyone seems to be ignoring the fact that Esperanto is only easy if you already have a background in a Germanic and/or Latin language. E.g.: it is extremely Euro-centric. For a language that aims to promote unity, it carries a lot of inherent cultural baggage. Not to mention that the majority of people in the world do not live in a European or English-speaking country. Their native language tends to be so different that it is absolutely non-trivial to learn a language like Esperanto. E.g.: Arabic and other Semitic languages, Uralic, and almost all Asian languages. All these have a distinct disadvantage when trying to learn Esperanto. Cultural bias and an uneven learning curve is why other Conlangs have been created to address these issues. Mostly notably there is Lojban. It is meant to be equally difficult for everyone and seeks to have no cultural bias. Whether it succeeded in either of these is certainly debatable, but it does a far better job at it compared to Esperanto. Unfortunately, the nail in Lojban's coffin, is that there are only a few thousand speakers worldwide and very few of them are fluent. Add to that, that beyond the novelty factor and sheer interest by language enthusiasts, there is no drive to actually learn the language. And that, I fear, is going to be the situation for any attempt to create a truly global language. There just isn't enough reason to make it work (As much as I would love for it to work.)

I really wouldn't go so far as saying it "*Almost Took Over The World" as in the title- it received serious consideration but it definitely remained to be seen if nations would have *actually* implimented teaching an 'auxiliary language' for diplomacy, let alone if this would have become common place for all students in most nations. However going even further than that even in nations *with* official second languages there is still wide variablility in adoption and fluency rates often driven by culture or necessity. It's far from a sure thing that it would have taken over the world and in fact it seems more likely than not that it probably would have failed to do so. There was definitely a *possiblility* it could have, though, but much like it was with Latin, French and now English it's unlikely it would ever be quite as well spoken as we'd like, acheiving true universal speaking is really, really hard

Of course it was the French

All words are made up

All languages are made up.

Another reason to hate the french not that I need more

Mi parolas Esperanton!

So basically the reason I'm not speaking a very simple to learn language I could speak to anyone in the world in is because of the French. I'm a native English speaker and English was my biggest struggle in school to try to learn and I'm still not perfect at it.

Another reason to hate the french 😤🙏

1890s Frenchman: Hon hon hon, zees Assperanteau az neau chonse, Français fereverr ! Ah heaup neursing appens een twanteefahv yeeaurz an zen ergen een feefty yeaurz, hon hon hon ! o.o

2:40 I daresay it proveth of interest solely to those whose native tongues are not of the agglutinative sort. For example, to a Hungarian, it is but a natural thing to fashion countless new words by the simple expedient of joining base words together. Moreover, such languages admit of no gender distinction. These peculiarities arise most organically, as it were, and not through such contrivances as might be deemed akin to the methods of Frankenstein.

All languages are made up