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|colspan="2" bgcolor="# | |colspan="2" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align="center" |'''Esperanto''' | ||
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|colspan="2" bgcolor="# | |colspan="2" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align="center" |'''Created by:''' | ||
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||L. L. Zamenhof ||1889 | ||L. L. Zamenhof ||1889 | ||
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'''Esperanto''' is the world's most popular [[international auxiliary language]], spoken by an unknown number of people (estimates vary a lot, but 1 million is probably in the right ballpark) all over the world. The name derives from the author [[L. L. Zamenhof]]'s pseudonym '''Doktoro Esperanto''' 'Dr. Hopeful'; he himself named it '''La Internacia Lingvo''' 'The International Language'. | |||
==Phonology== | |||
===Consonants=== | |||
The 22 consonants are: | |||
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: 0 auto;" | |||
|- | |||
! | |||
! colspan="2" | [[Bilabial consonant|Bilabial]] | |||
! colspan="2" | [[Labiodental consonant|Labio-<br />dental]] | |||
! colspan="2" | [[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]] | |||
! colspan="2" | [[Postalveolar consonant|Post-<br />alveolar]] | |||
! colspan="2" | [[Palatal consonant|Palatal]] | |||
! colspan="2" | [[Velar consonant|Velar]] | |||
! colspan="2" | [[Glottal consonant|Glottal]] | |||
|- align="center" | |||
! align="left" | [[Nasal consonant|Nasal]] | |||
| colspan="2" |{{IPA|m}} | |||
| colspan="2" | | |||
| colspan="2" |{{IPA|n}} | |||
| colspan="2" | | |||
| colspan="2" | | |||
| colspan="2" | | |||
| colspan="2" | | |||
|- align="center" | |||
! align="left" | [[Plosive consonant|Plosive]] | |||
| {{IPA|p}} || {{IPA|b}} | |||
| colspan="2" | | |||
| {{IPA|t}} || {{IPA|d}} | |||
| colspan="2" | | |||
| colspan="2" | | |||
| {{IPA|k}} || {{IPA|ɡ}} | |||
| colspan="2" | | |||
|- align="center" | |||
! align="left" | [[Affricate consonant|Affricate]] | |||
| colspan="2" | | |||
| colspan="2" | | |||
| {{IPA|ts}} || | |||
| {{IPA|tʃ}} || {{IPA|dʒ}} | |||
| colspan="2" | | |||
| colspan="2" | | |||
| colspan="2" | | |||
|- align="center" | |||
! align="left" | [[Fricative consonant|Fricative]] | |||
| colspan="2" | | |||
| {{IPA|f}} || {{IPA|v}} | |||
| {{IPA|s}} || {{IPA|z}} | |||
| {{IPA|ʃ}} || {{IPA|ʒ}} | |||
| colspan="2" | | |||
| {{IPA|x}} || | |||
| {{IPA|h}} || | |||
|- align="center" | |||
! align="left" | [[Trill consonant|Trill]] | |||
| colspan="2" | | |||
| colspan="2" | | |||
| colspan="2" | {{IPA|r}} | |||
| colspan="2" | | |||
| colspan="2" | | |||
| colspan="2" | | |||
| colspan="2" | | |||
|-align="center" | |||
! align="left" | [[Approximant consonant|Approximant]] | |||
| colspan="2" | | |||
| colspan="2" | | |||
| colspan="2" |{{IPA|l}} | |||
| colspan="2" | | |||
| colspan="2" |{{IPA|j}} | |||
| colspan="2" | | |||
| colspan="2" | | |||
|} | |||
===Vowels=== | |||
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: 0 auto; text-align:center;" | |||
! | |||
! | [[Front vowel|Front]] | |||
! | [[Back vowel|Back]] | |||
|- | |||
! style="text-align: right;" | [[Close vowel|Close]] | |||
| {{IPA|i}} | |||
| {{IPA|u}} | |||
|- | |||
! style="text-align: right;" | [[Mid vowel|Mid]] | |||
| {{IPA|e}} | |||
| {{IPA|o}} | |||
|- | |||
! style="text-align: right;" | [[Open vowel|Open]] | |||
| colspan=2 | {{IPA|a}} | |||
|} | |||
[[Category:Conlangs]] | [[Category:Conlangs]] | ||
[[Category:Auxlangs]] | [[Category:Auxlangs]] | ||
Revision as of 11:24, 8 September 2010
| Esperanto | |
| Spoken in: | most countries of Earth |
| Timeline/Universe: | international auxiliary language |
| Total speakers: | unknown (estimated ca. 1 million) |
| Genealogical classification: | A posteriori
|
| Basic word order: | SVO |
| Morphological type: | agglutinating |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | accusative |
| Created by: | |
| L. L. Zamenhof | 1889 |
Esperanto is the world's most popular international auxiliary language, spoken by an unknown number of people (estimates vary a lot, but 1 million is probably in the right ballpark) all over the world. The name derives from the author L. L. Zamenhof's pseudonym Doktoro Esperanto 'Dr. Hopeful'; he himself named it La Internacia Lingvo 'The International Language'.
Phonology
Consonants
The 22 consonants are:
| Bilabial | Labio- dental |
Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | ɡ | ||||||||
| Affricate | ts | tʃ | dʒ | |||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x | h | ||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | l | j | ||||||||||||
Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u |
| Mid | e | o |
| Open | a | |
