Esperanto |
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Pronunciation | [espeˈranto] ( listen) |
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Created by | L. L. Zamenhof |
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Date | 1887 |
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Setting and usage | International auxiliary language |
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Users | Native: estimated 1000 to several thousand (2016) L2 users: estimates range from 63 000 to two million |
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Purpose | |
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Early forms: | |
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Writing system | Latin script (Esperanto alphabet) Esperanto Braille |
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Sources | Vocabulary from Romance and Germanic languages, grammar from Slavic languages |
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Regulated by | Akademio de Esperanto |
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ISO 639-1 | eo |
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ISO 639-2 | epo |
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ISO 639-3 | epo |
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