Esperanto

esperanto esperantó espéranto English eo Etymology en ine-pro *speh₁- en :lbor eo:Esperanto + 1 Originally, this was the pseudonym assumed by the creator of the language, L. L. Zamenhof, and the language was called eo Lingvo Internacia international language. The term first appears in the publication Science in 1892. Pronunciation en /ˌɛspəˈɹæntəʊ/ RP, /ˌɛspəˈɹɑːntəʊ/ en /ˌɛspəˈɹæntoʊ/ GA, /ˌɛspəˈɹɑntoʊ/ en en-us-Esperanto.ogg US en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Frzzl-Esperanto.wav UK en æntəʊ ɑːntəʊ 4 Proper noun en Q143 en Artificial languages An international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof. en Rebecca Bettencourt (jan Lepeka), et al. Preliminary proposal to encode sitelen pona in the UCS https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2024/24275-encode-sitelen-pona.pdf 2024-04-16 2-3 w:Unicode Speakers of toki pona have formed a large online community. On Discord, the largest toki pona community claims approximately 13,000 members (as of February 1, 2024), more than the largest Na’vi community at approximately 9,600 members, the largest Interslavic community at approximately 8,000 members, or the largest Esperanto community at approximately 7,400 members. https://web.archive.org/web/20250718120956/http://unicode.org/L2/L2024/24275-encode-sitelen-pona.pdf en Nathan Sanders A primer on constructed languages https://sanders.phonologist.org/Papers/sanders-conlang-primer.pdf 2026-06-28 7 w:University of Toronto Other auxlangs of this period include Joseph Schipfer’s Communicationssprache (1839), a simplified version of French; Jean Pirro’s Universalglot (1868), one of the first fully developed auxlangs to integrate linguistic features from multiple languages; and Johann Martin Schleyer’s Volapük (1880), which was the most successful auxlang until Esperanto supplanted it. https://web.archive.org/web/20251101153613/https://sanders.phonologist.org/Papers/sanders-conlang-primer.pdf en en figuratively Anything that is used as a single international medium in place of plural distinct national media. en The U.S. dollar is the Esperanto of currency. en 1923 w:Edward Sims Van Zile That Marvel—the Movie The Movie as a World Language 193 [Compared] to the Esperanto of the Eye, [cinema], [Esperanto's] conquest of the Earth is painfully slow[.] en 1981 Ellen Goodman Where did all the accents go? Sarasota Journal https://books.google.com/books?id=dhQhAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA4&article_id=2524,2146780&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiXk9HOu8P8AhVXAzQIHUNNAH4Q6AF6BAgDEAI#v=onepage&q&f=false 6A I think there is increasingly a homogenized voice, an Esperanto in the ear. en 1994 w:Terry Pratchet w:Interesting Times making its usual explicit request in the Esperanto of brutality. en Peter Foster Peter Foster: Sustainable Newspeak by 2050 w:Financial Post https://financialpost.com/opinion/peter-foster-sustainable-newspeak-by-2050 2021-01-05 The instrument of this dumbing down in Nineteen Eighty-Four was Newspeak, the official language of the English Socialist Party (Ingsoc). Newspeak was a sort of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting and manufacturing words. https://web.archive.org/web/20210331064742/https://financialpost.com/opinion/peter-foster-sustainable-newspeak-by-2050 en James Brooke-Smith Accelerate!: A History of the 1990s 2022 The History Press https://books.google.com/books?id=xIRxEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT17&dq=&hl=&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiFgdWhi8L_AhUsRaQEHaUzAzE4ChDoAXoECAwQAg#v=onepage&q=&f=false 978-1-80399-149-8 There may have been a few slippages when the show's American English was translated for foreign audiences—Alerte à Malibu! Mishmar Ha-Mifratz!—but the theme song was pure Esperanto, a joyous surge of energy and desire that was instantly comprehensible from Quito to Tehran. Derived terms en Esperantic Esperantisation Esperantise Esperantism Esperantist Esperantization Esperantize Esperantophone Translations auxiliary language Afrikaans: af esperanto Albanian: sq esperanto n Arabic: ar إِسْبِرَانْتُو m Armenian: hy էսպերանտո Assamese: as এস্পেৰাণ্ট ভাষা Asturian: ast esperantu m Basque: eu esperanto Belarusian: be эспера́нта n, be эспэра́нта n taraškievica Bikol: Central Bikol: bcl Esperanto Breton: br esperanteg m Bulgarian: bg еспера̀нто n Carpathian Rusyn: rue есперанто n Catalan: ca esperanto m Cherokee: chr ᎡᏍᏇᎳᏂᏙ Chinese: Cantonese: yue 世界語, rare yue 希望語 Mandarin: cmn 世界語, rare cmn 希望語, dated cmn 萬國新語, dated cmn 愛斯不難讀 Czech: cs esperanto n Danish: da esperanto n Dhivehi: dv އެސްޕެރަންތޯ Dutch: nl Esperanto n Esperanto: eo Esperanto Estonian: et Esperanto Finnish: fi esperanto French: fr espéranto m Galician: gl esperanto m Georgian: ka ესპერანტო German: de Esperanto n Greek: el Εσπεράντο n Greenlandic: kl Esperanto Gujarati: gu એસ્પેરાન્તો Hawaiian: haw ‘ōlelo Ekepelānako Hebrew: he אֶסְפֶּרַנְטוֹ esperanto Hindi: hi एस्पेरान्तो Hungarian: hu eszperantó Icelandic: is esperantó n Ido: io Esperanto, io Espo Interlingua: ia esperanto Inuktitut: iu ᐃᓯᐱᕋᓐᑐ Irish: ga Esperanto, ga Sprantais f Italian: it esperanto Japanese: ja エスペラント Esuperanto, ja エスペラント語 Esuperanto-go, rare ja 希望語 kibō-go Kashubian: csb esperanto n Kazakh: kk эсперанто Korean: ko ^에스페란토 Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: kmr esperantoyî f Latin: la Lingua Esperantica f, la Lingua Zamenhofiana f Latvian: lv esperanto m Lithuanian: lt esperanto m Macedonian: mk еспера́нто n Malayalam: ml എസ്പെരാന്തോ Nahuatl: nah netēmachīliztlahtōlli, nah esperantotlahtōlli Norwegian: no esperanto Occitan: oc esperanto m Persian: fa اسپرانتو esperânto Polish: pl esperanto n Portuguese: pt esperanto m Romanian: ro esperanto, ro limba esperanto Russian: ru эспера́нто n Rwanda-Rundi: rw Icyesiperanto Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh еспера̀нто m, sh есперантски m Latin: sh esperànto m, sh esperantski m Sicilian: scn esperantu m Silesian: szl esperanto n Slovak: sk esperanto n Slovene: sl esperanto n Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: dsb esperanto n Upper Sorbian: hsb esperanto n Spanish: es esperanto m Swahili: sw Kiesperanto Swazi: ss sí-Speranto, ss síSperanto Swedish: sv esperanto c Tagalog: tl Esperanto Tamil: ta எஸ்பெராண்டோ Thai: th เอสเปรันโต àyt-bpay-ran-dtoh, th ภาษาเอสเปรันโต paa-săa àyt-bpay-ran-dtoh Turkish: tr Esperanto Ukrainian: uk еспера́нто f n Vietnamese: vi quốc tế ngữ, vi tiếng quốc tế ngữ, vi thế giới ngữ Volapük: vo Sperantapük Yiddish: yi עספּעראַנטאָ n Zulu: zu isiEsperanto See also :Category:Esperanto language Further reading Reta Vortaro (short : ReVo) a multilingual dictionary with esperanto definitions and translations in many languages. See also ReVo 1 eo epo epo Akademio de Esperanto Anagrams en aeenoprst personate Central Bikol Proper noun + en Esperanto auxiliary language Dutch Etymology Borrowed from nl eo Esperanto. Pronunciation nl /ˌɛs.pəˈrɑn.toː/ nl Nl-Esperanto.ogg nl Es pe ran to Proper noun n en Esperanto Derived terms nl esperantisme nl esperantist nl eponyms nl Artificial languages Esperanto eo: L16205 thumb|250px|Esperanta flago Etymology eo :from esperanto<ety:af<esperi><-anto>> 1 From Doktoro Esperanto ("Doctor Hopeful"), the pen-name of Esperanto's author, Dr. Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof, when he published the language in 1887; from eo esperanto one who hopes, from the verb eo esperi to hope, from eo fr espérer, eo es esperar, ultimately from eo la spērō to hope. Pronunciation Eo-Esperanto.ogg;LL-Q143 (epo)-Lepticed7-Esperanto.wav;LL-Q143 (epo)-Robin van der Vliet-Esperanto.wav Proper noun eo Q143 en Esperanto Derived terms eo esperanta<t:of or relating to Esperanto> esperantano<t:proponent of Esperanto> Esperantido<t:offshoot of Esperanto> esperantigi<t:to translate or transliterate to Esperanto> Esperantio,Esperantujo<t:notional land of Esperantists> esperantismo<t:the ideal of a neutral, universal auxiliary language> esperantistiĝi<t:to become an Esperantist> esperantisto<t:active user of Esperanto, Esperantist> esperantologio<t:linguistic study of Esperanto, Esperantology> esperantologo<t:specialist in Esperantology, an Esperantologist> esperantumado<t:use of Esperanto, Esperanto-related activities> Further reading eo Artificial languages German Etymology de :bor eo:Esperanto de eo Esperanto, pseudonym of L. L. Zamenhof, from eo esperanto one who hopes, from eo esperi to hope. Pronunciation de /ˌɛspəˈʁanto/ de De-Esperanto.ogg de De-Esperanto2.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Proper noun n,(s) en Esperanto de Spracherfindung und ihre Ziele http://www.interlinguistik-gil.de/wb/media/beihefte/18/beiheft18.pdf 2011-11 51 GIL Diskussionen zum Toki Pona im Internet werden gewöhnlich auf Englisch oder auf Esperanto geführt, wenn schon nicht in der Sprache selbst geschrieben wird. https://web.archive.org/web/20210627181940/http://www.interlinguistik-gil.de/wb/media/beihefte/18/beiheft18.pdf Usage notes The word can be used with or without a definite article: (Das) Esperanto ist eine Kunstsprache. (“Esperanto is a constructed language.”) The form with no article is generally more common, but the article is necessary in the genitive case (e.g. die Grammatik des Esperanto) and with the preposition de in (e.g. die Pluralbildung im Esperanto). Further reading de Artificial languages Ido Etymology Esperanto Pronunciation Proper noun io proper noun en Esperanto Synonyms dated io Esp. io Espo Derived terms io Esperantala io Esperantisto io Esperantismo See also io esperanto Interlingua Noun ia noun Esperanto ia Artificial languages Italian Noun m - en Esperanto See also it esperantista Anagrams it aeenoprst pensatore speronate it Artificial languages Romanian Noun n - ro esperanto Tagalog Etymology tl es esperanto, from tl eo Esperanto, from eo esperanto one who hopes. Pronunciation Proper noun + en Esperanto auxiliary language Derived terms tl mag-Esperanto Related terms tl Esperantista esperansa esperensado des-esperado des-esperasyon Further reading 254 esperanto tl Artificial languages Turkish Etymology tr :bor eo:Esperanto + 1 Pronunciation tr LL-Q256 (tur)-UmutDevrim08-Esperanto.wav Proper noun Esperanto tr Artificial languages