From hombre!uunet!cbmvax!snark!lojbab Sun Sep 9 23:46:03 1990 Return-Path: Received: by marob.masa.com (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.18.1 #18.1) id ; Sun, 9 Sep 90 23:46 EDT Received: by hombre.MASA.COM (smail2.5) id AA09722; 9 Sep 90 23:41:37 EDT (Sun) Received: from cbmvax.UUCP by uunet.uu.net (5.61/1.14) with UUCP id AA01847; Sun, 9 Sep 90 23:24:24 -0400 Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore Jan 13 1990) id AA15508; Sun, 9 Sep 90 22:59:52 EDT Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (smail2.3) id AA22405; 9 Sep 90 22:44:33 EDT (Sun) To: lojban-list Subject: native Esperanto speakers? Date: 9 Sep 90 22:44:33 EDT (Sun) From: uunet!cbmvax!snark.thyrsus.com!lojbab Message-Id: <9009092244.AA22405@snark.thyrsus.com> Status: RO To any Esperanto speakers on the list. There has been discussion on sci.lang asking about native Esperanto speakers whose parents did not speak a common language other than Esperanto. Can anyone give a reference for this information. I vaguely recall reading of this, as well as that there are small communities in Europe where Esperanto is by intention the standard language and that therefore the 'natural language' of the children is Esperanto. Total numbers only a few thousand at most. If you have information, please send to me and John Cowan (cowan@marob.masa.com) and post to sci.lang if you have that capability, indicating that I asked you to do so. --lojbab