Esperanto
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| Esperanto | |
The Esperanto flag
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| 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) |
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Early forms
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Proto-Esperanto
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| Dialects | Ido and other Esperantidos |
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Latin script (Esperanto alphabet) Esperanto Braille |
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| 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 |
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Linguist list
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epo |
| Glottolog | espe1235 |
| Linguasphere | 51-AAB-da |
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 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. Esperanto was recommended by the French Academy of Sciences in 1921 and recognized by UNESCO in 1954, which recommended in 1985 that international non-governmental organizations use Esperanto. Esperanto was the 32nd language accepted as adhering to the "Common European Framework of Reference for Languages" in 2007.
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