Esperantoball

Esperantoball , originally called La lingvo internaciaball, is a languageball that represents the Esperanto language. It is the world's most spoken constructed international auxiliary languageball.

History

Creation of Esperantoball

The Esperantoball was created in the late 1870s and early 1880s by L. L. Zamenhof. According to Zamenhof, the languageball was created to learn other languages more easily (as Esperanto shares similiarities with many other languages), and to foster harmony between people from different countryballs.

In 1905, Zamenhof published the book Fundamento de Esperanto as a guide to the Esperanto language. After over 10 years of development of the Esperanto language, Zamenhof started translating other books and literature into Esperanto, and along with that, the first book about Esperanto grammar (called Unua Libro) was published in in Warsawball on July 26, 1887. In the next decades, the number of Esperanto learners and speakers grew rapidly (Along with that, Polish was banned in Polandball, which belonged to the Russian Empireball at the time.) Esperanto was mainly learnt and used in the Russian Empireball and Central Europe, but its over the years its use got extended to Europe, the Americas, Chinaball and Japanball.

Persecution of Esperantoball

Throughout history, Esperantoball got persecuted by countries such as Nazi Germanyball, Soviet Unionball and Franceball.

Nazi Germanyball wanted to ban Esperantoball because L. L. Zamenhof was jewish, and since Esperantoball was made to be an international language, they thought Esperantoball was "Bolshevist". Hitler even had a conspiracy theory that Esperantoball would be used as a international language after Jews achieve "world domination". Because of this, Many Esperanto speakers got murdered during the Holocaust, specifically targeting L. L. Zamenhof's family.
In 1935, Esperantoball officially got banned in Nazi Germanyball, but the Esperanto speakers that were being held in concentration camps taught Esperanto to other prisoners, claiming that they were actually teaching them Italian (as Italyball was one of the Axis Powers).

Fun Facts

• It doesn't actually want to replace other Languageballs, but to help people learn foreign languages and connect the peoples of the world.
• It has only 16 rules.
• It is a hybrid of various languages, including words of Indo-European origin, isolating syntax, Spanish vocals...
• It has its own football team.
• It also has a child language: Idoball.
• Although the language isn't official in any countryball, it is recognized by United Nationball, and is spoken by many Esperanto communities throughout the world, and it is also spoken in international meetings. It's officially recognized as cultural heritage of Polandball since 2014.