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FAQ
https://loganhall.net/eo/faq-en.html
A summary of the language from the above page:
Esperanto is a constructed language, i.e. someone sat down and invented it — L. L. Zamenhof, a Jewish optometrist and polyglot born in an area of Russia which is now Poland. He believed the world could be united through a common, international auxiliary language (IAL), which should be politically- and culturally-neutral before people would willingly adopt it. He decided no good candidate language existed, so set out to invent a new one, ultimately based on his knowledge of Russian, Yiddish (natively spoken); Polish, German, French, Hebrew, Belarusian, English, Volapük (acquired); and Latin, Greek, Aramaic (studied academically).
Zamenhof began work on his international language no later than 1878, and first publicized it in 1887 under the pseudonym Dr. Esperanto ("Dr. Hopeful", lit. one who hopes). Having not named it anything other than "the international language", it came to be known itself as "Esperanto". Zamenhof with the earliest adopters of this proposal continued to translate works, publish journals, and refine the language, culminating in the first all-Esperanto meetup in 1905 — the Universal Congress, held that year in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France — where several hundred Esperantists ratified the Fundamento de Esperanto, an authoritative baseline for the language. There has been a Universal Congress in different countries every year since, except none 1916—1919 (because of World War Ⅰ), none 1940—1946 (because of World War Ⅱ), and only virtually in 2020, 2021 (because of the COVID-19 pandemic).
This thread is for people who want to learn, learn about, or discuss the constructed language, Esperanto. You don't need to have an interest in learning the language in order to post in this thread. I think that there are enough interesting things to discuss here without that. For instance, Esperanto has an interesting history among the left. There used to be a whole labor Esperanto movement. The language also caught on among the anarchists in Catalonia, and the Soviet Union had the second largest group of Esperanto speakers in the world during the interwar period. There even was an attempt to establish a town with a factory where Esperanto was exclusively spoken in the early period of the revolution. And today, one of the fastest growing regions of speakers is China, where the language is given state support.