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1. Brian Barker says:

   October 10, 2009 at 9:07 pm

   Great news for Scots Gaelic.

   However, I think the choice of a future global language must be between English and Esperanto, rather than an untried project.

   It’s unfortunate however that only a few people know that Esperanto has become a living language.

   After a short period of 122 years Esperanto is now in the top 100 languages, out of 6,800 worldwide, according to the World CIA factbook. It is the 22nd most used language in Wikipedia, and is a language choice of Google, Skype, Firefox and Facebook.

   Native Esperanto speakers,(people who have used the language from birth), include George Soros, World Chess Champion Susan Polger, Ulrich Brandenberg the new German Ambassador to NATO and Nobel Laureate Daniel Bovet.

   Your readers may be interested in seeing http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_YHALnLV9XU . Professor Piron was a translator with the United Nations in Geneva.

   A glimpse of this planned language can be seen at http://www.lernu.net