Esperantujo

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Esperantujo (or Esperantio ) is the name given by the speakers of the Esperanto language for the Esperanto language community, including the associated Esperanto culture and institutions.

According to various estimates, there are likely to be between a few thousand and a few hundred thousand active Esperanto speakers in more than 100 countries - people who use Esperanto in any way over the course of a year. According to estimates, a total of several million people have learned Esperanto since 1887; there are still one to two thousand native Esperanto speakers. According to a survey of test persons in 1995, the majority of speakers learn Esperanto in their youth or after they have finished their work.

Differentiation from the Esperanto movement

Occasionally the term Esperanto movement is used for the language community of all Esperanto speakers , regardless of whether the speakers are committed to the goals of the Esperanto movement or not.

Made in 1887

In the foreword to his first Esperanto textbook Internationale Sprache , Ludwik Zamenhof wrote in 1887 that his language should be such that everyone who has learned this language “must be able to use it immediately to communicate with other nationalities”, “regardless of how if this language is recognized by the world, whether it has many, few or no followers ”; this laid the foundation for the formation of the Esperanto language community.

Esperanto culture

The Esperanto language community has on the one hand taken over cultural assets from other language communities, on the other hand it has created its own cultural assets. In the first textbook from 1887, Zamenhof published a poem translation (from the book of songs by Heinrich Heine ) and two of his own poems ( Mia penso and Ho, mia kor ' ).

Around ten thousand Esperanto books have now been published, with around 120 more being added every year.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Esperanto speakers : Josef Fliegner quotes numbers between 100,000 and 3 million Esperanto speakers. “The Encyclopaedia Britannica assumes 100,000 speakers worldwide and the Fischer Almanach of 1986 names around 3 million users (p. 910).” Josef Fliegner: A related foreign language. Esperanto from a German perspective. In: Holger Burckhart (Ed.): Language of Didactics - Didactics of Language. Festschrift for Hans Messelken. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2003 ISBN 3-8260-2553-9 , pp. 196–221, here: p. 198 .
    Esperanto learners : Der Fischer Weltalmanach '84 , Frankfurt / Main 1983 (similar in other years) writes that there are "3-16 million" second-language Esperanto speakers.
    Native speaker : Renato Corsetti. A mother tongue spoken mainly by fathers . In: Language Problems and Language Planning 20 (1996): 3, 263-273. Also: Sabine Fiedler. The Esperanto denaskulo: The status of the native speaker of Esperanto within and beyond the planned language community . In: Language Problems and Language Planning 36 (2012): 1, 69-84.
  2. ^ Sabine Fiedler: On characteristics of the Esperanto language community (results of a test person survey) . In: Interlinguistische Informations , Supplement 4, 7th GIL Conference: Sociocultural Aspects of Planned Language. Berlin 1998, p. 24.
  3. ↑ Goals. In: Ludwik Lazar Zamenhof: International Language. Warsaw 1887. p. 8.
  4. ^ Poems in Esperanto. In: Ludwik Lazar Zamenhof: International Language. Warsaw 1887. pp. 23-25.