Esperanto
Family/group:
Artificial language
Number of speakers:
1-15 million (as 2nd language)
Where
spoken:
ca. 60 countries
Script:
Roman
Esperanto
was invented in 1887 by Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof as
an international language. It is the most used of all AL�s. It
has a large body of literature in translation, including the Bible and
the Qu�ran. Despite applications to the United Nations, it still does
not have recognition as an international language.