{"id":3913,"date":"2016-09-07T00:33:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T00:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/?p=3913"},"modified":"2017-08-23T16:00:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T16:00:03","slug":"where-do-people-even-speak-esperanto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/where-do-people-even-speak-esperanto\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Do People Even Speak Esperanto?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Esperanto is a language without a home. You can choose to look at that statement in any number of ways, however, whatever it is you are thinking is probably somewhere along the scale of that means it isn\u2019t a real language<\/i> to it\u2019s enough for this restless warrior<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Esperanto, however homeless a language it may be, is still spoken by around two million people the world over. In fact in our first look at Esperanto we learned that we could find speakers in countries as different from each other as the US, Hungary and China. To us that means that Esperanto is more nomadic traveller than vagrant vagabond. Join us as we look a little closer at the demographic split.<\/p>\n

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Esperanto Associations around the world via Wikipedia<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Before we start\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n

It should be made clear that there has never been a full census or survey taken to give a true picture of how many Esperanto speakers there are throughout the world. We have the approximation of two million from Sidney S Culbert, who sampled Esperanto speakers in different countries over a period of about twenty years, and this figure has stuck; perhaps the Universal Esperanto Association (UEA<\/a>) will eventually be able to conduct further research but for now, two million is what we will assume.<\/p>\n

According to Jouko Lindstedt, a linguistic expert on native-born Esperanto speakers, here is a further breakdown of some of those speakers:<\/p>\n