Esperanto
Object 'Esperanto' belongs to the 'World Languages' theme.Connection to English:
Esperanto shares a lot of cognates with English, and a similar grammar. The sound system of Esperanto is a subsystem of the sound system of English, making this a very easy language for English speakers to pronounce.
Connection to Spanish:The two languages share a lot of cognates, as do any two romance languages.
Connection to French:Like most languages, French enjoys a lot of Esperanto cognates. Esperanto's prepositions are heavily influenced by French, e.g. the preposition "sur".
Connection to Japanese:Although Esperanto attempts to share cognates with as many languages as possible, it doesn't share many with Japanese. It seems Japanese wasn't even particularly considered in the design of Esperanto. For example, the Esperanto stem "vid" ("see") could just as well have been "mir", which would still be a cognate for the usual romance languages but would also be a convenient false cognate with Japanese "miru", but it seems this kind of thing was completely neglected. The two languages have radically different writing systems. Their phonologies are also very different, but (like Spanish) Esperanto's vowels roughly do correspond to Japanese vowels.
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