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: