Where are most Esperanto speakers?

The countries with the highest number of Esperanto speakers are (in order) Brazil, France, USA, Germany, Russia, Poland and Spain.

Where is Esperanto popular?

Although the language hasn’t become as popular as Zamenhof hoped — or brought world peace — it’s estimated that anywhere between 200,000 and 2 million people speak the language worldwide. Devotees say Esperantists exist all over the globe, with especially large pockets in Europe, as well as China, Japan and Brazil.

Which language has the most global speakers?

The most spoken languages in the world

• English (1.132 million speakers)
• Mandarin (1.117 million speakers)
• Spanish (534 million speakers)
• French (280 million speakers)
• Arabic (274 million speakers)
• Russian (258 million speakers)
• Portuguese (234 million speakers)

Where do people even speak Esperanto?

Concentration of speakers is highest in Europe, East Asia and South America. The Universal Esperanto Associationhas more than 5,500 members in 120 countries.[7] The language has also gained a noticeable presence on the internet in recent years, as it became increasingly accessible on platforms such as Duolingo.

Is Esperanto a real language?

Yes, Esperanto is a real language. It is not a natural language, rather an artificial one, and I think that is what most people think when they say conlangs can’t be real languages. Language as a uniquely human system of communication does not have some kind of law that says conlangs can’t be real languages.

Who is actually speak Esperanto?

And even though Esperanto was made to be an auxiliary language, there is a cohort of about 1,000 people who speak Esperanto as their first language, a few of whom were interviewed in the video above. The most famous native speaker is Hungarian-American billionaire philanthropist George Soros , whose father was a devotee of the language.

How many people speak Esperanto?

Esperanto is spoken by about 1,000 to 2,000 as native speakers who learned Esperanto from birth, and according to Ethnologue , some 2 million people as a second language in 115 countries, most of them in Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, and South America.