The Question:Do people actually speak Esperanto? The Answer:Yes, but mostly in addition to another language. According to Ethnologue's Esperanto entry, as of 1996 it had an estimated 200 to 2,000 native speakers, while 2,000,000 spoke Esperanto as a second language. —The Fact Monster Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. |