Talk:Langue nouvelle
Latest comment: 10 years ago by Kwamikagami in topic Influence on other projects
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Influence on other projects edit
Nice article, I admit I had never heard of this project. One question though: the sentence "It is likely that it influenced Volapuk, Esperanto, and other language projects of the 19th century" strikes me as a somewhat bold claim. Are there any sources out there to substantiate it? —IJzeren Jan Uszkiełtu? 08:19, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
- That's from the WP-eo article, where it's tagged for sourcing, but at Esperanto etymology we do have a comment from Otto Jespersen that the vowel ablaut of Esperanto was not original to Zamenhof, but dates back to Faiguet. — kwami (talk) 08:23, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
- That's interesting and certainly worth mentioning in the article, but IMO it's not a strong case for any influence. Vowel ablaut in Volapük and Esperanto may just as well be attributed to coindicence, especially since the idea is not exactly far-fetched. If we don't even know that Zamenhof and Schleyer were familiar with this project at all, I don't think it would be wise to suggest any direct influence. —IJzeren Jan Uszkiełtu? 09:15, 20 February 2014 (UTC)