Esperanto: what exactly is it and why did it fail?

English is currently the most widely spoken language in the world, followed by Chinese. In ancient times, Esperanto was created as an international language so that people from the five continents could communicate. It was created from Slavic, Latin and Germanic languages, but it ended up being an absolute failure. Yes there were those who learned it and even spoke it, and it is considered that it was LL Zamenhof, a Polish ophthalmologist, who invented it. At the end of the 19th century, he published the bases of Esperanto, and he did so not so that the rest of the languages that existed in the world would be relegated to the background, but to give an international language that was simple and quick to learn. A century later it has become clear that Esperanto failed, and today English is the most widely spoken language in the world. None of us use Esperanto to communicate with people from other countries who do not speak Spanish, but, according to official data, it has about 100,000 speakers worldwide.History and evolution of EsperantoThe origin of Esperanto dates back to 1887. Since then Until today it has evolved, although very slowly and without major changes. It is said that it is very easy to learn, and some experts claim that it is up to 10 times simpler than English. Esperanto grammar is summarized in 16 grammar rules and the alphabet is 100% phonetic. Regular endings are added to the stem to create words by combining prefixes, suffixes, and roots. Taking all this into account, why did Esperanto fail? There are several reasons. First of all, many speakers did not accept the different language proposals.Second, there were those who were unwilling to speak a language that had been “artificially” constructed on the basis of major European languages. And third and last, the literary vocabulary of Esperanto is too extensive, for these reasons Esperanto did not have the expected reception at first. However, it should not be forgotten that more than a century later there are some people who speak this language in various towns in Europe and, in addition, it is recognized in institutions derived from the UN such as UNICEF and UNESCO. that there are 800,000 people who are currently studying this language. The Universal Esperanto Association has thousands of members in 120 countries around the world.