Esperanto

EPO

vigorous

Alternate Names: Eo, La Lingvo Internacia

Genealogy:

Constructed language

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.