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Esperanto (; (:espeˈranto) ) is a constructed international auxiliary language. It is the most widely spoken constructed language in the world. Its name derives from ' ("" translates as "one who hopes"), the pseudonym under which physician and linguist L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the '','' on 26 July 1887. Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy-to-learn, politically neutral language that would transcend nationality and foster peace and international understanding between people with different languages. Up to 2,000,000 people worldwide, to varying degrees, speak Esperanto, including perhaps 2,000 native speakers who learned Esperanto from birth. The World Esperanto Association has members in 120〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Universala Esperanto-Asocio: Kio estas UEA? )〕 countries. Its usage is highest in Europe, East Asia, and South America.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=User locations ).〕 , the most popular online learning platform for Esperanto, reported 150,000 registered users in 2013, and sees between 150,000 and 200,000 visitors each month.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=La programo de la Kleriga lundo en UK 2013 )〕 With about }} articles, Esperanto Wikipedia is the 32nd-largest Wikipedia as measured by the number of articles,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=List of Wikipedias )〕 and the largest Wikipedia in a constructed language.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=List of Wikipedias by language group )〕 On 22 February 2012, Google Translate added Esperanto as its 64th language. On 28 May 2015, the language learning platform Duolingo launched an Esperanto course for English speakers. , over 185,000 users had signed up.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.duolingo.com/course/eo/en/Learn-Esperanto-Online )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.duolingo.com/comment/8829387 )〕 The first World Congress of Esperanto was organized in France in 1905. Since then, congresses have been held in various countries every year, with the exceptions of years during the world wars. Although no country has adopted Esperanto officially, Esperanto was recommended by the French Academy of Sciences in 1921 and recognized by UNESCO in 1954, which recommended in 1985 that international non-governmental organizations use Esperanto. Esperanto was the 32nd language accepted as adhering to the "Common European Framework of Reference for Languages" in 2007.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=edukado.net → / Ekzamenoj / Referenckadro )〕 Esperanto is currently the language of instruction of the International Academy of Sciences in San Marino.〔 Esperanto is seen by many of its speakers as an alternative or addition to the growing use of English throughout the world, offering a language that is easier to learn than English.〔Grin Report, page 81 "Thus Flochon (2000: 109) notes that 'the Institute of Cybernetic Education of Paderborn (Germany) has compared the learning times of several groups of French-speaking baccalauréat students to reach an equivalent "standard" level in four different languages: Esperanto, English, German and Italian. The results are as follows: to reach this level, 2000 hours of German study produce a linguistic level equivalent to 1500 hours of English study, 1000 hours of Italian study and … 150 hours of Esperanto study.' No comment." Other estimates scattered in the literature confirm faster achievement in target language skills in Esperanto than in all the other languages with which the comparison has been made (Ministry of Education (), 1995) as well as propaedeutic benefits of Esperanto (Corsetti and La Torre, 1995)."〕 == History == (詳細はウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Esperanto」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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