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Language code: epo

Technical information about ISO 639 language code epo

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The table below provides technical details for the Esperanto language, designated by the epo code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

epo

Name

Official

Esperanto

Native

Esperanto

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Related languages
IdoNovialInterlinguaOccidental
Key facts
Created in 1887 by Ludwik Lejzer ZamenhofGrammar summarized in 16 fundamental rulesOrthography is fully phonemic, with one letter per soundAgglutinative word-building lets speakers derive many meanings from few rootsHolds the largest corpus of original literature among constructed languages
Sample phrase

Saluton, kiel vi fartas?

Character encodings

ISO 8859-3, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Esperanto language, identified by the code epo, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Constructed' by its type.

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