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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: denaskuloj = since-birth Esperanto-speaakers  
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Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 02:07:58 GMT
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a18812@mindlink.bc.ca (William Thornton-Trump) writes in a recent posting (reference <81760-819841916@mindlink.bc.ca>):
>
>I have heard that there are, in fact, people who speak Esperanto as their
>first language. They are apparently children of Esperantists who always
>used Esperanto at home because the parents spoke different native
>languages. I cannot cite any authority for this; I just remember reading it
>somewhere.

There are several studies of this phenomenon:
_Dulingve- pli simple_ Erno Csiszar  
_DDenaska dulingveco_  RRenato Corsetti

Both are published by Universala Esperanto Asocio in Rotterdam.

I am sure that there are numerous references to this segment of the 
international community, for it is raather commonplace to meet many
denaskuloj at congresses, etc...

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