Language code: `eo`

Technical 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	`eo`
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	ISO 8859-3, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32
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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.

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