Jouko Lindstedt
Jouko Lindstedt (born in 1955) is a Finnish Linguist and a professor at the University of Helsinki. [1] Lindstedt is a member of the Academy of Esperanto and was even nominated as the Esperantist of the Year in 2000 (with Hans Bakker and Mauro La Torre ), nominated by The Wave of Esperanto.
The number of Esperanto speakers
In 1996 Jouko Lindstedt estimated the number of speakers of Esperanto, saying:
- 1 000 have Esperanto as a native language.
- 10 000 speak it fluently, as if natively.
- 100 000 can be used for effective communication.
- 1 000 000 know the elements of it.
Lindstedt explains that this is a very imprecise figures; they mean, for example, that "if it is estimated the number of native Esperanto speakers only in hundreds, it may be too little, but there is not many thousands of them." [2] According to feedback from Lindstedt, Edmund Grimley Evans has modified the scheme by adding
- 10 000 000 ever little studied it [1] .
References
- ^ "Helsinki.fi".
- ^ "La nombro de esperantistoj". 2006-09-24. Archived from the original on September 24, 2006. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
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