Outline of Esperanto

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Esperanto: Esperanto[1][2] is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language.

L. L. Zamenhof, a Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist, created Esperanto in the late 19th century and published the first book detailing it, Unua Libro, in 1887 under the pseudonym Dr. Esperanto, Esperanto translating as "one who hopes".

[3] Esperanto can be described as all of the following: