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'''Esperanto''' is a [[constructed language]] developed by an ophthalmologist, Dr. L. L. Zamenhof, in the late 1870s. Esperanto is a planned language intended for use between people who speak different native languages. It was designed with the intention of being both simple to learn and unambiguous. It is spoken by some hundreds of thousands, perhaps several million, people in all parts of the world. The [[New Testament ]] was first published in Esperanto in 1912, and the [[Bible ]] in 1926. The language's creator, Dr. Zamenhof, was the main translator of the Esperanto [[Old Testament]].
==Grammar and vocabulary==
Esperanto has 16 sixteen concise grammatical rules. Most significantly for English-speaking learners, several difficult features of foreign languages are absent from Esperanto. Nouns have no gender, and there are no irregular verbs. Esperanto does not have different words for "you"; the same word, "''vi''", is used to address any individuals or groups of people, regardless of their status.
The language has a primarily [[Latin|Latinate]] vocabulary, but has [[agglutinative]] aspects in its syntax. In keeping with its purpose of being as logical and simple to learn as possible, there are no irregular forms.
