Esperanto FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions about the international language Esperanto.
This FAQ about the international language Esperanto was compiled and written by Mike Urban urban@netcom.com and Yves Bellefeuille yan@storm.ca with numerous contributions by others.
Principal contributors: Ken Caviness caviness@southern.edu, Alan Gould agolincs@agolincs.demon.co.uk, Edmund Grimley-Evans edmundo@rano.demon.co.uk, Don Harlow don@donh.vip.best.com, Konrad Hinsen hinsen@cnrs-orleans.fr, Dmitri Horowitz horowitz@xs4all.nl, Arnold Victor arvimide@mars.superlink.net, Martin Weichert martinw@cs.chalmers.se, and David Wolff dwolff@world.std.com.
1. What is Esperanto?- Esperanto is a language designed to facilitate communication ...
- 2. How easy is Esperanto to learn?
- For a native English speaker, we may estimate that Esperanto is ...
- 3. Where does Esperanto's vocabulary come from?
- About 75 % of Esperanto's vocabulary comes from Latin and ...
- 4. What about Esperanto's grammar and word-order?
- Even more than its vocabulary, it is Esperanto's grammar and rules ...
- 5. How many people speak Esperanto?
- This is a very common question, but nobody really knows the answer. ...
- 6. How can I use Esperanto once I've learned it?
- Here are some of the many different ways people use Esperanto:...
- 7. Where do I find Esperanto classes, textbooks, etc.?
- For US residents, the Esperanto League for North America is the best ...
- 7.2 Where do I find Esperanto classes, textbooks, etc.?
- Macintosh owners with HyperCard and MacinTalk can take advantage of ...
- 8. How come Esperanto doesn't have
? - Although Esperanto is a planned language, it has developed well ...
- 9. What are some common objections to Esperanto? How do speakers of Esperanto respond to them?
- (I am indebted to Ken Caviness for preparing this material. ...
- 9. Esperanto isn't a real language, is it?
- Ken Caviness:...
- 9. Can an artificial language have its own literature? (Esperanto)
- Duncan C Thomson:...
- 9. Isn't Esperanto "too European"?
- Joseph Voros:...
- 9. Should we create a language with words from all around the world? (Esperanto)
- Manuel M Campagna:...
- 9. Isn't Esperanto hard for speakers of non-Indo-European languages?
- Manuel M Campagna:...
- 11. What about other "artificial" languages like loglan, ido, etc.? (Esperanto)
- People create languages for a variety of purposes. J.R.R. Tolkien'...
- 12. What are PAG, PIV, PMEG, PV, TEJO AND UEA? (Esperanto)
- As with other groups, there are some common acronyms that come up ...
- 13. How do you say "I love you" in Esperanto?
- Mi amas vin....
- 14. How can i type and display Esperanto's accented characters?
- Esperanto has six letters with accents: c, g, h, j, and s can have ...
- 14. Macintosh: How can i type and display Esperanto's accented characters?
- (Thanks to Arnold Victor and Dmitri Horowitz for preparing the ...
- 14. DOS: How can i type and display Esperanto's accented characters?
- WordPerfect 5.1 natively supports Esperanto's accented characters....
- 14. Windows 3.1 and Windows 95: How can i type and display Esperanto's accented characters?
- Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 are very similar in this respect, so we'...
- 14. Unix: How can i type and display Esperanto's accented characters?
- (Thanks to Konrad Hinsen for the following information.)...
- 14. TeX and LaTeX: How can i type and display Esperanto's accented characters?
- (Thanks to Edmund Grimley-Evans for this information.)...
- 15. How can i represent these characters in e-mail or on usenet? (Esperanto)
- Accented characters are not included in standard, 7-bit ASCII. ...
- 17. What Esperanto material is available on other (non-internet) on-line services?
- Several Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes) provide Esperanto services....
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