page_title: Esperanto
section_title: After the wars
hierarchical_section_title: Esperanto / History / After the wars
caption_attribution_description: grupfoto dum la 49a Internacia Seminario 2005/2006 en Xanten (ne ĉiuj partoprenintoj ĉeestis)
context_page_description: Esperanto is a constructed auxiliary language. Its creator was L. L. Zamenhof, a Polish eye doctor. He created the language to make international communication easier. His goal was to design Esperanto in such a way that people can learn it much more easily than any other national language.
  At first, Zamenhof called the language La Internacia Lingvo, which means "The International Language" in Esperanto. Soon, people began calling it by the simpler name Esperanto, which means "one who hopes". That name comes from Doktoro Esperanto, which is what Zamenhof called himself in his first book about Esperanto.
  There are people who speak Esperanto in many countries and in all the major continents. No one knows exactly how many people now speak Esperanto in the world. Most sources say that there are between several hundred thousand and two million Esperanto speakers. A few people grew up speaking Esperanto as their first language. There may perhaps be around 2,000 of these people. Therefore, Esperanto is the most-used constructed language in the world.
  A person who speaks or supports Esperanto is often called an "Esperantist".
context_section_description: After World War II many people supported Esperanto. 80 million people signed a petition supporting Esperanto for use in the United Nations.
  Every year they organize big Esperanto meetings such as the World Congress of Esperanto, International Youth Congress of Esperanto and SAT-Congress (meeting of Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda - World Non-national Association).
  In 1990, the Holy See published the document Norme per la celebrazione della Messa in esperanto, allowing the use of Esperanto in Masses without special permission. Esperanto is the only constructed language which received a permission like this one from the Roman Catholic Church.
  Esperanto has many web pages, blogs, podcasts, and videos. People also use Esperanto in social media and online discussions and in their private communication through e-mail and instant messaging. Several (especially open source and free software) programmes have their own language version in Esperanto. Internet radio station Muzaiko has been broadcasting 24 hours a day in Esperanto since 2011.
caption: Most of the participants of an Esperanto meeting in Xanten (Germany) in 2006.
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