Ido | ||||
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Pronunciation | IPA: [ˈido] | |||
Created by | Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language | |||
Date | 1907 | |||
Setting and usage | International auxiliary language | |||
Users | 100–200 (2000) | |||
Purpose | ||||
Sources | based on Esperanto1894 | |||
Official status | ||||
Regulated by | Uniono por la Linguo Internaciona Ido | |||
Language codes | ||||
ISO 639-1 | io | |||
ISO 639-2 | ido | |||
ISO 639-3 | ido | |||
Linguasphere | 51-AAB-db | |||
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Ido is a constructed language, a so-called reformed Esperanto, which was developed in 1907. Ido was made by a group of people that thought Esperanto was too hard to be a world language. They did not like how Esperanto used letters with special diacritic marks over them, because that made it hard to type, and they thought that a world language should be easy to learn and write.