Esperantoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

A learned borrowing from Esperanto Esperanto. Originally, this was the pseudonym assumed by the creator of the language, L. L. Zamenhof, and the language was called Lingvo Internacia (“international language”). The term first appears in the publication Science in 1892.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌɛspəˈɹæntəʊ/, /ˌɛspəˈɹɑːntəʊ/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌɛspəˈɹæntoʊ/, /ˌɛspəˈɹɑntoʊ/
• 韻: -æntəʊ, -ɑːntəʊ

固有名詞

Esperanto

1. An international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof.
   • 2024 April 16, Rebecca Bettencourt (jan Lepeka), et al., “Preliminary proposal to encode sitelen pona in the UCS”, in Unicode‎, pages 2-3:

     Speakers of toki pona have formed a large online community. On Discord, the largest toki pona community claims approximately 13,000 members (as of February 1, 2024), more than the largest Na’vi community at approximately 9,600 members, the largest Interslavic community at approximately 8,000 members, or the largest Esperanto community at approximately 7,400 members.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Esperanto.
2. (figuratively) Anything that is used as a single international medium in place of plural distinct national media.

   The U.S. dollar is the Esperanto of currency.

   • 1923, Edward Sims Van Zile, “The Movie as a World Language”, in That Marvel—the Movie, page 193:

     [Compared] to the Esperanto of the Eye, [cinema], [Esperanto's] conquest of the Earth is painfully slow[.]

   • 1981, Ellen Goodman, “Where did all the accents go?”, in Sarasota Journal‎, page 6A:

     I think there is increasingly a homogenized voice, an Esperanto in the ear.

   • 1994, Terry Pratchet, Interesting Times:

     […] making its usual explicit request in the Esperanto of brutality.

   • 2021 January 5, Peter Foster, “Peter Foster: Sustainable Newspeak by 2050”, in Financial Post‎:

     The instrument of this dumbing down in Nineteen Eighty-Four was Newspeak, the official language of the English Socialist Party (Ingsoc). Newspeak was a sort of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting and manufacturing words.

   • 2022, James Brooke-Smith, Accelerate!: A History of the 1990s‎, The History Press, →ISBN:

     There may have been a few slippages when the show's American English was translated for foreign audiences—Alerte à Malibu! Mishmar Ha-Mifratz!—but the theme song was pure Esperanto, a joyous surge of energy and desire that was instantly comprehensible from Quito to Tehran.

派生語

参考

• Category:Esperanto language
• Appendix:Esperanto Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Esperanto

Further reading

• Reta Vortaro (short : ReVo) a multilingual dictionary with esperanto definitions and translations in many languages. See also ReVo
• ISO 639-1 code eo, ISO 639-3 code epo (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Esperanto, epo ⁠
• Akademio de Esperanto
• Esperanto on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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