Alternate Names: Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
Genealogy:
Demographics: L2 users: 2,000,000 (Wiesenfeld 1999).
Language Use: All ages.
Language Development: Bible: 1900–1910.
Typology: SVO, OVS; prepositions; genitives, relatives after noun heads; articles, adjectives, numerals before noun heads; question word initial; accusative -n; affixes mark tense; passive with esti + passive participle; causative -ig; comparative word; nontonal.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Poland
Other Comments: Developed 1872–1885 by L. L. Zamenhof of Warsaw, Poland, for intercommunication among L1 speakers of other languages.