Esperanto | ||||
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International language Esperanto | ||||
Pronunciation | [espeˈranto] ( listen) | |||
Created by | L. L. Zamenhof | |||
Date | 1887 | |||
Setting and usage | International auxiliary language | |||
Users | Native: estimated 1000 to several thousand (2016) L2 users: estimates range from 63 000 to two million | |||
Purpose | constructed language
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Early forms: | Lingwe uniwarsala
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Writing system | Latin script (Esperanto alphabet) Esperanto Braille | |||
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 | epo | |||
Esperantujo: 120 countries worldwide | ||||
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Esperanto is a constructed auxiliary language. Its creator was L. L. Zamenhof, a Polish eye doctor. He created the language to make international communication easier. His goal was to design Esperanto in such a way that people can learn it much more easily than any other national language.