eoTechnical information about ISO 639 language code eo
The table below provides technical details for the Esperanto language, designated by the eo code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Esperanto Native Esperanto |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Related languages | IdoInterlinguaNovialLingua Franca Nova |
| Key facts | Created in 1887 by L. L. Zamenhof under the pseudonym “Doktoro Esperanto”Vocabulary is predominantly Romance with additional Germanic and Slavic layersHighly agglutinative morphology lets speakers build many words from a small root setOrthography is strictly phonemic, using a 28-letter Latin alphabet with six accented lettersAn Esperanto greeting is included on the Voyager Golden Record now traveling beyond the Solar System |
| Sample phrase | Saluton, kiel vi fartas? |
| Character encodings | |
| Supported in Localizely |
Esperanto is the world's most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. It was created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887 and is intended to serve as a universal second language for international communication. It uses the Latin script.
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Esperanto speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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