Esperantoball

File:Esperanto-icon.png Esperantoball File:Esperanto-icon.png
Personality	Flexible, friendly, diverse, humanist
Language(s)	File:Esperanto-icon.png Esperanto
Type	File:Esperanto-icon.png Languageball
Affiliation	Spoken in: Earthball
Relations and opinions
Friends	Parent File:Ido-icon.png Child
Enemies	Nazi Germanyball Soviet Unionball Franceball Englishball (Not really)
Historical information
Founded	1887
Population
How many people?	Over 100k Speakers
Is of importants
Börk	Esperanto Esperanto / International International
Notes

File:Esperanto-icon.png Esperantoball, originally called La lingvo internaciaball, is a Polandball character that represents the Esperanto language. It is the world's most spoken constructed international auxiliary language.

History

File:Esperanto-icon.png Creation of the Esperanto language File:Esperanto-icon.png

The File:Esperanto-icon.png Esperanto language was created in the late 1870s and early 1880s by L. L. Zamenhof. According to Zamenhof, the language was created to learn other languages more easily (as File:Esperanto-icon.png Esperanto shares similiarities with many other languages), and to foster harmony between people from different countries.

In 1905, Zamenhof published the book Fundamento de Esperanto as a guide to the File:Esperanto-icon.png Esperanto language. After over 10 years of development of the File:Esperanto-icon.png Esperanto language, Zamenhof started translating other books and literature into File:Esperanto-icon.png Esperanto, and along with that, the first book about File:Esperanto-icon.png Esperanto grammar (called Unua Libro) was published in in File:Warsaw-icon.png Warsawball on July 26, 1887. In the next decades, the number of File:Esperanto-icon.png Esperanto learners and speakers grew rapidly (Along with that, Polish was banned in Polandball, which belonged to the Russian Empireball at the time.) File:Esperanto-icon.png Esperanto was mainly learnt and used in the Russian Empireball and Central Europe, but its over the years its use got extended to Europe, the Americas, File:Chinaball-icon.png Chinaball and File:Japanball-icon.png Japanball.

File:Esperanto-icon.png Persecution of the Esperanto language File:Esperanto-icon.png

Throughout history, File:Esperanto-icon.png Esperantoball got persecuted by countries such as Nazi Germanyball, Soviet Unionball and Franceball.

Nazi Germanyball wanted to ban File:Esperanto-icon.png Esperanto because L. L. Zamenhof was jewish, and since File:Esperanto-icon.png Esperanto was made to be an international language, they thought File:Esperanto-icon.png Esperanto was "Bolshevist". Hitler even had a conspiracy theory that File:Esperanto-icon.png Esperanto would be used as a international language after Jews achieve "world domination". Because of this, Many File:Esperanto-icon.png Esperanto speakers got murdered during the Holocaust, specifically targeting L. L. Zamenhof's family.
In 1935, File:Esperanto-icon.png Esperanto officially got banned in Nazi Germanyball, but the File:Esperanto-icon.png Esperanto speakers that were being held in concentration camps taught File:Esperanto-icon.png Esperanto to other prisoners, claiming that they were actually teaching them Italian (as File:Italy-icon.png Italyball was one of the Axis Powers).

Fun Facts

• It doesn't actually want to replace other Languageballs, but to help people learn foreign languages and connect the peoples of the world.
• It has only 16 rules.
• It is a hybrid of various languages, including words of Indo-European origin, isolating syntax, Spanish vocals...
• It has its own football team.
• It also has a child language: File:Ido-icon.png Idoball.
• Although the language isn't official in any countryball, it is recognized by File:UNball-icon.png UNball, and is spoken by many File:Esperanto-icon.png Esperanto communities throughout the world, and it is also spoken in international meetings. It's officially recognized as cultural heritage of Polandball since 2014.