Esperanto Esperanto is an artificial language, designed to serve internationally as an 1_______ means of communication among speakers of different languages. It 2______ Ludwig Lazar Zamenhof, a Polish Jewish doctor specialized in eye diseases. Esperanto was first presented in 1887. An international movement was 3________ to promote its use. Despite arguments and disagreements, the movement has 4_______ flourish and has members in more than 80 countries. Esperanto is used internationally across language boundaries by at least 1million people, particularly in specialized fields. It is used in personal 5_________, on radio broadcasts and in a number of 6________ as well as in translations of both modern works and classics. Its popularity has spread from Europe, both East and West, to such countries as Brazil and Japan. It is, however, in China that Esperanto has had its greatest 7_______. It is taught in universities and used in many translations (often in scientific or technological works). El Popola Cinio , which means from People’s China, is a monthly magazine in Esperanto and is read 8_______. Radio Beijing’s Esperanto program is the most popular program in Esperanto in the world. Esperanto’s vocabular is drawn 9__________ from Latin, the Romance languages, English and German. Spelling is completely regular. A simple and consistent set of endings indicates grammatical functions of word. Thus, for example, every noun ends in “o”, every adjective in “a”, and the basic form of every verb in “i”. Esperanto also has a highly 10_________ system of constructing new words from old ones.