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Yes, the esperanto language is alive! And more alive! In Hungary it's been a "living" language also formally since 2004.

Could somebody tell me what should I do for the esperanto will be between the basic languages of the Plus! ?

Nice. But it still is an 'artificial' language and no country has it as an official language. There are very few native speakers using it as there first language. As such, the chance is extremely slim that it would ever be included in Messenger Plus!.

It isn't true! There are 2 million Esperanto speakers all around the world. The esperanto is alive! And for example the estonioan language is included and it is spoken only in Estonia. And there are only 1,25 million speakers, and not all around the world. And the estinian speakers live almost in Estonia! (information from wikipedia.org)

Yep, but lets stick to the facts: there aren't any accurate statistics about the number of Esperanto speakers, simply because it's way too simple to learn and anyone can, thus there no way to control how many people will speak it.
Second, no country has set it as official language, wich leads to Esperanto will always be a second+ language.

Now, about the languages in Messenger Plus!: all them are based on user statiscs. If a language has as many users as required, it will be included in the setup, as was Greek some time ago. If Esperanto isn't officially included in the setup, means there aren't as many users as required. As simple as it can be. =)

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Originally posted by retumanto
It isn't true! There are 2 million Esperanto speakers all around the world.

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But it is true.

Esperanto is not the official language of any country, it is not a national language, it is an artifical language. Unlike Estonian which is the national language of Estonia.

Only a very small handfull of those 2mil (which is as accurate as any other language count, BlessedGuy) have Esperanto as their native language. All the others speak it as a second language and thus will not use Esperanto as their primary communication.

And as stated before too, it is not the number of speakers in the world which counts, but the number of Messenger Plus! users which use the language as the interface language for Messenger Plus!.

So even if a language which is spoken by 60mil people in the world has only 500 active Plus! users, the language will be removed from the setup. There is nothing we can do about it, those are the rules for any translation.

Since you now created an Esperanto translation, people will be able to download it and use it. And if enough people use it, it might be included somewhere in the futur. But as said, don't get your hopes up. Chances are extremely extremely slim...


In retrespec, if only the number of people in the world who know the language would count than the chance that Latin would be added to the setup would be extremely larger than Esperanto being added as Latin is known by a lot more people (as their non-primary language).