Where Did Esperanto Originate?

Esperanto was created in the late 1870s and early 1880s by L. L. Zamenhof, a Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist from Białystok, then part of the Russian Empire but now part of Poland. In the 1870s, just a few years before Zamenhof created Esperanto, Polish was banned in public places in Białystok.

Where is Esperanto spoken natively?

Speakers of Esperanto are located in many parts of the globe. Majority of the speakers are found in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Brazil, United States, Poland, Italy, Germany and France. Surprisingly, there are also many Esperanto speakers in China and Japan.

What is Esperanto a mix of?

Esperanto is a mix of French, English, Spanish, German and Slavic languages making it easy to pick up. It's phonetic and has much fewer words than other languages.