Criticism of Esperanto

Esperanto
Esperanto
The Esperanto flag
Pronunciation	[espeˈranto]
Created by	L. L. Zamenhof
Date	1887
Setting and usage	International auxiliary language
Users	Native: Around 1,000 families involving around 2,000 children (2004) L2 users: estimates range from 100,000 total (1999) to 10 million total (1996)
Purpose	constructed language International auxiliary language Esperanto
Early form	Proto-Esperanto
Dialects	Ido and other Esperantidos
Writing system	Latin script (Esperanto alphabet) Esperanto Braille
Signed forms	Signuno
Sources	Vocabulary from Romance and Germanic languages, grammar from Slavic languages
Official status
Regulated by	Akademio de Esperanto
Language codes
ISO 639-1	eo
ISO 639-2	epo
ISO 639-3
Linguist List	epo
Glottolog	espe1235
Linguasphere	51-AAB-da
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Esperanto (/ˌɛspəˈræntoʊ/ or /-ˈrɑː-/; in Esperanto: [espeˈranto]  listen ) is a constructed international auxiliary language. It is the most widely spoken constructed language in the world. The Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, Unua Libro, on 26 July 1887. The name of Esperanto derives from Doktoro Esperanto ("" translates as "one who hopes"), the pseudonym under which Zamenhof published Unua Libro.

Zamenhof had three goals, as he wrote in Unua Libro:

The first World Congress of Esperanto was organized in Boulogne-sur-Mer (France) in 1905. Since then, congresses have been held in various countries every year, with the exceptions of years during the world wars. Although no country has adopted Esperanto officially, Esperantujo is the collective name given to places where it is spoken.

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