Esperanto

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Esperanto

A language in the Auxiliary Language Family.
Alternative Names	None
Origin	European
Writing System	Esperanto alphabet (derived from Latin)
In Use	1887 to the present
Official/National Language of	None
Also Spoken in	France
Native Speakers	~1,000
Non-Native Speakers	Unknown
Regulated by	Akademio de Esperanto
ISO 639-1 Code	EO
ISO 639-2 Code	EPO
ISO 639-3 Code	EPO
Pronunciation
English	Esperanto
Unknown

Contents 1 History of Esperanto 2 Text Sample 3 Esperanto in Other Languages 4 Teaching Materials for Esperanto 4.1 Esperanto Dictionaries 5 Sources

History of Esperanto

See: Esperanto/history

Text Sample

Ĉiuj homoj estas denaske liberaj kaj egalaj laŭ digno kaj rajtoj. Ili posedas racion kaj konsciencon, kaj devus konduti unu al alia en spirito de frateco.
-Article 1, “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights^[1]

Esperanto in Other Languages

See: Esperanto/translate

Teaching Materials for Esperanto

• Tips on self-teaching Esperanto

Esperanto Dictionaries

• Dicts.info
• Travlang.com (basic dictionary, site has popups)

Sources

1. ↑ Unicode Consortium, “UDHR in Unicode - Translations sorted by name,” http://www.unicode.org/udhr/index_by_name.html, 2/18/08.