What is esparanto?

Question

its a type of language, but what else.......

Answer 1

Is the misspelling of "Esperanto".

Esperanto is a language, but not of any country or ethnic group: it is a neutral, international language.

"Esperanto is considerably easier to learn than national languages, since its design is far simpler and more regular. Also, unlike national languages, Esperanto allows communication on an equal footing between people, with neither having the usual cultural advantage favouring a native speaker.

Esperanto's purpose is not to replace any other language, but to supplement them: Esperanto would be used as a neutral language when speaking with someone who doesn't know one's own language. The use of Esperanto would also protect minority languages, which would have a better chance of survival than in a world dominated by a few powerful languages."

"Several research studies demonstrate that studying Esperanto before another foreign language speeds and improves learning the other language."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaedeutic_value_of_Esperanto

Answer 2

Esperanto (help·info) is the most widely spoken constructed international language. The name derives from Doktoro Esperanto, the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof first published the Unua Libro in 1887. Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy and flexible language as a universal second language to foster peace and international understanding.

Although no country has adopted the language officially, it has enjoyed continuous usage by a community estimated at between 100,000 and 2 million speakers and it is estimated that there are about a thousand native speakers. [1]

Today, Esperanto is employed in world travel, correspondence, cultural exchange, conventions, literature, language instruction, television (Internacia Televido) and radio broadcasting. Some state education systems offer elective courses in Esperanto; there is evidence that learning Esperanto is a useful preparation for later language learning (see Esperanto and education).

Answer 3

Esperanto was invented by a Polish oculist, Dr. Lejzer Ludwik Zamenhof, in 1887. Zamenhof was a man who had the idea of using his language as a tool to achieve lasting peace and, through fostering communications between nations, end war.

He was concerned that when nations got together to discuss treaties or arrange trade deals, one nation's language always dominated over the other. Usually, English. This led to the other nation being sidelined, and somewhat resentful if they didn't understand the dominant nation's language.

So he invented a language designed not to belong to any nation, but to be used by all, without fear of bias or semantic confusion. No jerrymandering and using fancy words to trip up people, or to disguise a clearly unilateral trade agreement with gobbledygook and small print: just a plain language, honest and clear and as easy to follow as it was possible to make it.

Esperanto (the name means "one who hopes") was developed with just 16 basic, straightforward rules, and no exceptions. It was made to be as simple as possible to learn.

By everybody.

So it's not the sad 1800s answer to Klingon that some people would paint it. It was a genuine attempt to bring about world peace and tolerance of all peoples.

It was heartily rejected by the people of the 20th and 21st centuries. And look what /they/ have achieved.

Answer 4

What is so cool about copy-paste a lot of things from a site?
Esperanto is a constructed language that is intended to be an alternative for international communication. It has simple grammar, phonetics based on Slavic languages and vocabulary taken from Romance and Germanic languages. Esperanto does not intend to surplant any other language. Depending on your source, Espetanto speakers are somewhere between 100,000 and 2,000,000 people.
But... if you want to know about it, please take a look at
http://esperanto.net/

Answer 5

Esperanto is the most widely spoken CONSTRUCTED language. That is all.

As the name comes from a made up name Doktoro Esperanto it is obvious that there unlikely to be no other thing that the word Esperanto refers to.

Answer 6

Esperanto was a language invented by a bloke who didn't realise that there's millions of people who already speak Mandarin, and nearly as many who speak English. No need for another language.

And it was also a ship in Red Dwarf and spoken by Kryten. Rimmer could never get the hang of it!

Answer 7

The whole point of esperanto was it was an invented language supposedly easy for the majority of Europeans to learn, so that we could all speak a common language.

English seems to have filled the market niche though.

Answer 8

It's the name of a space ship (sss esparanto) in red dwarf in the episode Back to reality. Can't think of any others :)

Answer 9

It's an artificial language derived from words common to all European languages.

Answer 10

It was an attempt of a unified language that EVERYBODY
could speak. The idea is pretty good, but it has not succ eeded