Is the language Esperanto Spoken today?

Question

The language of Esperanto was created in 1887 by Dr. L Zamenhof as a universal language that everyone would learn in addition to there own language, but I have never heard of anyone using it. does any country use it?

Answer 1

Jes! (Yes!)

Mi parolas kaj legas la internacian lingvon.

Walter:
According to Ethnologue.com, there are "200–2000 who speak Esperanto as a first language."

Native Esperanto speakers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Esperanto_speakers

Taivo:
See my links.

;)

Answer 2

As of today, July 31, 2006, there are 2187 registrants at the Universala Kongreso (World Congress) of Esperanto happening in Florence, Italy this week. This, of course, represents a small number of the Esperanto speakers worldwide.
Ask yourself how many people in the world play chess? Who are they? Where are they located? Who is a master player, who is competent, and who has just started learning? That will give you an idea of how many Esperanto speakers there are worldwide. :-)
Esperanto is not intended to be the language of any country (although people from time to time have tried to establish countries or communities) but a second language for international communication.
The Esperanto community is worldwide, diverse and thriving. You are not likely to bump into someone on the street who speaks Esperanto, especially in North America, but there are lots of resources available for learning the language and finding other Esperanto speakers with whom to chat, work, love, agree, disagree -- in fact, any type of communication that you would use a national language for.

Answer 3

Esperanto Association:- World Congress of Esperanto in Florence Italy 2006, Yokohama 2007. In 2005 the Pasporta Serva, a service run by UEAs youth section, contains addresses of 1364 hosts in 89 countries who will provide free over-night accommodation to Esperanto speaking travellers. Britain's Elvis Costello & America`s Michael Jaclson have recorded in Esperanto, written scores inspired by the language or used it in their promotional material. go to. www.esperanto.net/veb/ or type esperanto in any search engine. I hope this helps

Answer 4

No one is a native speaker of Esperanto, and there are not any geographically localized populations that speak it. Nevertheless, there are speakers of Esperanto in the ten thousands, which makes it relatively important among the world's minority languages.

Answer 5

There are no countries that use it, but it has a small but active group of fans who speak it, and a handful of native speakers (i.e. people whose parents used it casually as they were growing up). They have conferences and other get-togethers where they use and discuss the language. There is even a wikipedia in Esperanto.

Answer 6

Obviously it is not the official language of any country. And it is not a dead language. It is alive.
To answer your question: I speak Esperanto. And some contacts in my MSN list. And I've met several Esperantists living in my city.

Answer 7

Esperanto is not genealogically to any ethnic languages.It can described as a'language lexically prenominantly romanic,morphologically intensively aggluminative and to a certain degree isolating character' thats why it is not spoken that widely nowadays..

Answer 8

There are no native speakers of Esperanto and it is not the official or even semi-official language of any country. There is nowhere in the world you can go where Esperanto is the language of commerce or daily discourse. It is a dead language in terms of its usefulness.

Answer 9

Yes, it is alive and well today. Here are some web sites about it, and it was fasciating to learn about:

http://www.esperanto.com/esper1.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto

http://www.esperanto.net/

http://en.lernu.net/?utm_id=1&gclid=CNfq3cbls4YCFR05PgodOmZ2UA

http://www.worldlanguage.com/Languages/Esperanto.htm

Answer 10

I think that is what the Reverend Jessie Jackson speaks.