Jay Bowks wrote:
The Ethnologue lists
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=827
Esperanto, Europanto, and Interlingua.
[...]
It also claims that Esperanto is a language
of France, and that it has "200 to 2,000 people who
speak it as first language". If so it would be a
natural and non-artificial language for them
wouldn't it, those French native speakers of
Esperanto.... Highly irregular!
OK, I have no idea why it claims Esperanto to be a language of France,
but the information about native speakers is as accurate as is known
(though of course not all of them, in fact probably very few of them,
live in France).
There being native speakers obviously doesn't change the fact that
Esperanto is constructed, not natural.
Timwi