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Some people don't like having English as the global lingua franca because they associate it with colonialism. They don't like that the language of a single ethnicity is used as the language for the whole world, they say stuff such as English isn't a "neutral language". The Esperanto language was artificially created in 1887 before there was a lingua franca but it is still learnt by people today due to it not being very difficult to learn. Esperanto has a mostly Romance and Eurocentric basis iirc but also takes input from some non-European languages such as Hindi, Chinese, Arabic, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto
So what are your thoughts on the language? Should it replace English as a global lingua franca?
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