[Corpora-List] Is Esperanto an artificial language from the viewpoint of phonetics?

[Juliana Tambovtseva]

ПраздникDear Corpora colleagues, We have been reading with great pleasure some of the theoretical discussions on the Corpora net. We wonder what do you think of Esperanto? Is it an artificial language from the viewpoint of phonetics? Is it possible to compare Esperanto with the natural languages? Some linguists may say it is not possible to compare an artificial language with a natural language. Let us consider if Esperanto is really an artificial language on the phonetic level. It is artificial on the lexical and syntax level, because different word stocks are mixed, different affixes from different languages are taken and so on. However, on the phonetic level Esperanto is in no way different from any natural language. Thus in this respect it is quite a natural language. Its speech sounds are the same as the speech sounds in the natural languages. Thus, from the point of view of phonetics Esperanto is the same sort of object as any other natural language. It has the same phonetic features as a natural language. Esperanto's speech sounds may be classified in the same way as the speech sounds of any natural language. What is your opinion? We are looking forward to hearing to both addresses, but first of all to yutamb at mail.ru Remain yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev and Juliana Tambovtseva

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