Interesting facts about Esperanto


- Hungarians may choose among several languages when taking their university entrance exam and Esperanto is among them.

- Wikipedia in Esperanto has 250,000 articles.

- Learning of Esperanto speeds up learning other languages.

- Online dictionary Traperko has about 135 000 Esperanto words.

- Some brand names are from Esperanto or mean something in Esperanto: Lingvo (a popular dictionary software), Monero (a cryptocurrency), Klavarskribo (alternative system of music notation).

- There was a proposal to make Esperanto one of official languages of the League of Nations but France (French was the most respected international language at that time) put veto on that proposal.

- Esperanto was prohibited in Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union.

- There is an Esperanto political party (Europe–Democracy–Esperanto), which aims to establish Esperanto as the official language of the European Union.
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