Esperanto en · PROPN
Pronunciation
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- (General-American)
- /ˌɛspəˈɹæntoʊ/ (General-American)
- (US) audio
- /ˌɛspəˈɹæntəʊ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (UK) audio
Etymology
A learned borrowing from Esperanto Esperanto. Originally, this was the pseudonym assumed by the creator of the language, L. L. Zamenhof, and the language was called Lingvo Internacia (“international language”). The term first appears in the publication Science in 1892.
Meanings
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An international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof.
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.
2026 June 28 (last accessed), Nathan Sanders, “A primer on constructed languages”, in University of Toronto, archived from the original on 01 Nov 2025, page 7: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.
2024 April 16, Rebecca Bettencourt (jan Lepeka), et al., “Preliminary proposal to encode sitelen pona in the UCS”, in Unicode, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2025, pages 2-3:
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(figuratively) Anything that is used as a single international medium in place of plural distinct national media.
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.
2021 January 5, Peter Foster, “Peter Foster: Sustainable Newspeak by 2050”, in Financial Post, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2021:I think there is increasingly a homogenized voice, an Esperanto in the ear.
1981, Ellen Goodman, “Where did all the accents go?”, in Sarasota Journal, page 6A:[Compared] to the Esperanto of the Eye, [cinema], [Esperanto's] conquest of the Earth is painfully slow[.]
1923, Edward Sims Van Zile, “The Movie as a World Language”, in That Marvel—the Movie, page 193: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.
2022, James Brooke-Smith, Accelerate!: A History of the 1990s, The History Press, →ISBN:[…]making its usual explicit request in the Esperanto of brutality.
1994, Terry Pratchet, Interesting Times:The U.S. dollar is the Esperanto of currency.
Deriveds
Esperantise · Esperantophone · Esperantize · Esperantism · Esperantisation · Esperantization · Esperantist · Esperantic
Translations (98)
la Lingua Zamenhofiana (auxiliary language) · yi עספּעראַנטאָ (auxiliary language) · be эспэра́нта (auxiliary language) · yue 希望語 /希望语 (auxiliary language) · vo Sperantapük (auxiliary language) · sw Kiesperanto (auxiliary language) · sl esperanto (auxiliary language) · nah netēmachīliztlahtōlli (auxiliary language) · scn esperantu (auxiliary language) · ca esperanto (auxiliary language) · br esperanteg (auxiliary language) · fi esperanto (auxiliary language) · cmn 世界語 /世界语 (auxiliary language) · cmn 希望語 /希望语 (auxiliary language) · kl Esperanto (auxiliary language) · it esperanto (auxiliary language) · kmr esperantoyî (auxiliary language) · ia esperanto (auxiliary language) · hi एस्पेरान्तो (auxiliary language) · tl Esperanto (auxiliary language) · lt esperanto (auxiliary language) · de Esperanto (auxiliary language) · ast esperantu (auxiliary language) · sh esperantski (auxiliary language) · ko 에스페란토 (auxiliary language) · el Εσπεράντο (auxiliary language) · he אֶסְפֶּרַנְטוֹ (auxiliary language) · ta எஸ்பெராண்டோ (auxiliary language) · vi quốc tế ngữ (auxiliary language) · chr ᎡᏍᏇᎳᏂᏙ (auxiliary language) · sv esperanto (auxiliary language) · hu eszperantó (auxiliary language) · yue 世界語 /世界语 (auxiliary language) · io Espo (auxiliary language) · lv esperanto (auxiliary language) · ar إِسْبِرَانْتُو (auxiliary language) · pl esperanto (auxiliary language) · be эспера́нта (auxiliary language) · no esperanto (auxiliary language) · oc esperanto (auxiliary language) · hy էսպերանտո (auxiliary language) · iu ᐃᓯᐱᕋᓐᑐ (auxiliary language) · rw Icyesiperanto (auxiliary language) · dsb esperanto (auxiliary language) · is esperantó (auxiliary language) · af esperanto (auxiliary language) · eo Esperanto (auxiliary language) · fr espéranto (auxiliary language) · ro limba esperanto (auxiliary language) · as এস্পেৰাণ্ট ভাষা (auxiliary language) · ga Esperanto (auxiliary language) · ga Sprantais (auxiliary language) · szl esperanto (auxiliary language) · zu isiEsperanto (auxiliary language) · cs esperanto (auxiliary language) · sk esperanto (auxiliary language) · hsb esperanto (auxiliary language) · uk еспера́нто (auxiliary language) · ja 希望語 (auxiliary language) · pt esperanto (auxiliary language) · sh есперантски (auxiliary language) · dv އެސްޕެރަންތޯ (auxiliary language) · io Esperanto (auxiliary language) · sh esperànto (auxiliary language) · sq esperanto (auxiliary language) · cmn 愛斯不難讀 /爱斯不难读 (auxiliary language) · mk еспера́нто (auxiliary language) · cmn 萬國新語 /万国新语 (auxiliary language) · gl esperanto (auxiliary language) · es esperanto (auxiliary language) · eu esperanto (auxiliary language) · haw ʻōlelo Ekepelānako (auxiliary language) · kk эсперанто (auxiliary language) · et Esperanto (auxiliary language) · th เอสเปรันโต (auxiliary language) · bg еспера̀нто (auxiliary language) · nah esperantotlahtōlli (auxiliary language) · ka ესპერანტო (auxiliary language) · sh еспера̀нто (auxiliary language) · gu એસ્પેરાન્તો (auxiliary language) · ss síSperanto (auxiliary language) · csb esperanto (auxiliary language) · tr Esperanto (auxiliary language) · ss sí-Speranto (auxiliary language) · vi thế giới ngữ (auxiliary language) · da esperanto (auxiliary language) · la Lingua Esperantica (auxiliary language) · ro esperanto (auxiliary language) · fa اسپرانتو (auxiliary language) · rue есперанто (auxiliary language) · bcl Esperanto (auxiliary language) · th ภาษาเอสเปรันโต (auxiliary language) · ja エスペラント (auxiliary language) · ml എസ്പെരാന്തോ (auxiliary language) · ru эспера́нто (auxiliary language) · nl Esperanto (auxiliary language) · vi tiếng quốc tế ngữ (auxiliary language) · ja エスペラント語 (auxiliary language)