History UsefulNotes / EsperantoTheUniversalLanguage

** The horror film ''Film/{{Incubus}}'' starred WilliamShatner and was produced by most of the first season ''OuterLimits'' production team; it was filmed entirely in (poorly written and pronounced) Esperanto to sound more exotic.

* ''TinyToons: How I Spent My Summer Vacation'' [[ParentalBonus astonishingly]] has a joke about Esperanto, and is found in the quotes page.

* In the ''Batman-Superman: Apocalypse'' animated movie, the Kryptonian that {{Superman}} and the newly-arrived {{Supergirl}} speak to each other is Esperanto.

* ''[=SYR3=]: Invito Al Ĉielo'' (''Invitation to the Sky'') by Music/SonicYouth has all its song titles, credits, and even the full title of the EP written in Esperanto.

* "Memoro de la Ŝtono" ("Memory of the Stone")from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'' is sung in Esperanto.

* The credits to ElvisCostello's ''Blood and Chocolate'' album are in Esperanto, although some of the words are misspelled (it's "gitaro", not "guitaro").
* Legendary free jazz/underground rock label [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP-Disk ESP-Disk]] was originally intended to specialize in Esperanto music; its first release was a collection of folk songs in the language titled ''Ni Kantu En Esperanto'' (''Let's Sing in Esperanto'').
* In the {{They Might Be Giants}} song ''Alienation's for the Rich'': "And the TV's in Esperanto/You know that that's a bitch"
* The opening track in MaayaSakamoto's album Kazeyomi, Vento, is in esperanto.
* ''[=SYR3=]: Invito Al Ĉielo'' by SonicYouth has all its song titles, credits, and even the full title of the EP written in Esperanto.

* "Memoro de la Ŝtono" from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'' is sung in Esperanto.

* "SYR 3: Invito Al Ĉielo" by SonicYouth has all its song titles, credits, and even the full title of the EP written in Esperanto.

* SYR3: Invito Al Ĉielo by SonicYouth has all its song titles, credits, and even the full title of the EP written in Esperanto.

* ''Polar Star'' (the sequel to ''GorkyPark''). An American sailor who learns Esperanto as a hobby mentions a meeting his group organised between two famous practitioners of the language. "It took us five minutes to realise they couldn't understand what each other was saying. One's asking for the wine, the other's telling her the time."

* Though all of the main characters of ''{{Gattaca}}'' speak English, the announcements on the Gattaca Corporation's public address system are all in Esperanto. The Esperanto Society of North America is thanked in the credits.
** Hm. Does this mean that [[TranslationConvention the characters are actually speaking Esperanto]]?

Despite its status as the best known artificial language, [[BrokenBase not everybody agrees]] with all parts of it, ([[http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/ as you can read here]]) and thus it has spawned other languages that have tried to correct perceived flaws. These projects are collectively known as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperantido Esperantidoj]]; they include [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ido Ido]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novial Novial]]. For one reason or other, these languages have been even less successful than Esperanto.

* TheShadow novel ''Malmordo'' has the title villain's name coming from bad Esperanto, and his international gang speaks the language. The Shadow, of course, is fluent in Esperanto (and Romani, the other non-English language important in the story.)

Esperanto is a language constructed by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887 to help foster communication between countries. It was designed to be an easy-to-learn international language. The vast majority of the vocabulary is based on Latinate roots, as 1887 was still the age of colonialism, so for non-Europeans it can be harder to learn. Sadly, it didn't work as well as intended, thus spawning occasional mockery in modern media[[hottip:*:and murderous rage on the part of those who oppose movements that attempt to bridge social gaps; the Nazis outlawed Esperanto and even sent some of its speakers to the camps.]]. Even then, it's still a thriving language within its own media, and there are a few people around the world who have grown up with Esperanto as a first language.[[labelnote:*]]in addition to a natural language, obviously[[/labelnote]] Some stories set in TheFuture use Esperanto as if it had become the main language. It's also occasionally used AsLongAsItSoundsForeign.

Esperanto is supposed to have the advantage of being more "logical" than national languages. It has only [[http://donh.best.vwh.net/Esperanto/rules.html 16 grammatical rules]], and it ([[http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/y.html almost]]) never deviates from those rules; also, each letter is pronounced one way and one way only. By contrast, English (unlike most national languages) is full of all kinds of weird spelling and grammar rules that make it much harder to learn than it should be. In addition, Esperanto words are much more easily creatable, using prefixes and suffixes around the root word to handily morph words in any way necessary, thus making sentences more concise and language more literal. (Opinions vary on the subject of how colorful language equivalents have solidly found their way into the language, morphable like any other word.) Written Esperanto presents a bit of a problem in the digital age, since 6 letters of the Esperanto alphabet -- ĉ ĝ ĥ ĵ ŝ and ŭ -- don't appear in the standard ASCII/ANSI character set; many authors choose to simply write the letter without the hat on it and put an x afterward, like so: cx, gx, hx, jx, sx, ux.[[labelnote:*]]Eventually, even Esperanto's creator decided that these funny-looking letters were a bad idea, and unsuccessfully [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformed_Esperanto tried to get rid of them.]][[/labelnote]]

Esperanto is a language constructed by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887 to help foster communication between countries. It was designed to be an easy-to-learn international language. However, the vast majority of the vocabulary is based on Latinate roots, as 1887 was still the age of colonialism, so for non-Europeans it can be pretty hard to learn. Sadly, it didn't work as well as intended, thus spawning occasional mockery in modern media[[hottip:*:and murderous rage on the part of those who oppose movements that attempt to bridge social gaps; the Nazis outlawed Esperanto and even sent some of its speakers to the camps.]]. Even then, it's still a thriving language within its own media, and there are a few people around the world who have grown up with Esperanto as a first language.[[labelnote:*]]in addition to a natural language, obviously[[/labelnote]] Some stories set in TheFuture use Esperanto as if it had become the main language. It's also occasionally used AsLongAsItSoundsForeign.

Esperanto is a language constructed by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887 to help foster communication between countries. It was designed to be an easy-to-learn international language. However, the vast majority of the vocabulary is based on Latinate roots, as 1887 was still the age of colonialism, so for non-Europeans it can be pretty hard to learn. Sadly, it didn't work as well as intended, thus spawning occasional mockery in modern media[[hottip:*:and murderous rage on the part of those who oppose movements that attempt to bridge social gaps; the Nazis outlawed Esperanto and even sent some of its speakers to the camps.]]. Even then, it's still a thriving language within its own media, and there are a few people around the world who have grown up with Esperanto as a first language[[hottip:*:in addition to a natural language, obviously]]. Some stories set in TheFuture use Esperanto as if it had become the main language. It's also occasionally used AsLongAsItSoundsForeign.

Esperanto is supposed to have the advantage of being more "logical" than national languages. It has only [[http://donh.best.vwh.net/Esperanto/rules.html 16 grammatical rules]], and it ([[http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/y.html almost]]) never deviates from those rules; also, each letter is pronounced one way and one way only. By contrast, English (unlike most national languages) is full of all kinds of weird spelling and grammar rules that make it much harder to learn than it should be. In addition, Esperanto words are much more easily creatable, using prefixes and suffixes around the root word to handily morph words in any way necessary, thus making sentences more concise and language more literal. (Opinions vary on the subject of how colorful language equivalents have solidly found their way into the language, morphable like any other word.) Written Esperanto presents a bit of a problem in the digital age, since 6 letters of the Esperanto alphabet -- ĉ ĝ ĥ ĵ ŝ and ŭ -- don't appear in the standard ASCII/ANSI character set; many authors choose to simply write the letter without the hat on it and put an x afterward, like so: cx, gx, hx, jx, sx, ux.[[hottip:*:Eventually, even Esperanto's creator decided that these funny-looking letters were a bad idea, and unsuccessfully [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformed_Esperanto tried to get rid of them.]]

* Despite its goals and ease of use, Esperanto is not the world's most widely spoken invented language. [[Franchise/StarTrek Klingon]] is.
** That's only true if you are comparing all people who have learned a little Klingon versus speakers fluent in Esperanto.

* "Memoro de la Ŝtono" from ''FinalFantasyXI'' is sung in Esperanto.

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* The ingame ''{{Morrowind}}'' book ''[[http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Easter_Eggs#N.27Gasta.21_Kvata.21_Kvakis.21 N'Gasta! Kvata! Kvakis!]]'' is in Esperanto. (click the above link for a translation).

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Incidentally, "Esperanto" is of course itself an Esperanto word (it means ‘one who hopes’), hence is pronounced "ess-pear-AHN-toe", not "ess-per-rant-o", despite what [[http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/ haters]] might think.

* Damon Knight's story "You're Another" had a dictator in the far future speaking with an Esperanto accent, with occasional words and phrases in Esperanto.

Esperanto is supposed to have the advantage of being more "logical" than national languages. It has only [[http://donh.best.vwh.net/Esperanto/rules.html 16 grammatical rules]], and it (almost) never deviates from those rules; also, each letter is pronounced one way and one way only. By contrast, English (unlike most national languages) is full of all kinds of weird spelling and grammar rules that make it much harder to learn than it should be. In addition, Esperanto words are much more easily creatable, using prefixes and suffixes around the root word to handily morph words in any way necessary, thus making sentences more concise and language more literal. (Opinions vary on the subject of how colorful language equivalents have solidly found their way into the language, morphable like any other word.) Written Esperanto presents a bit of a problem in the digital age, since 6 letters of the Esperanto alphabet -- ĉ ĝ ĥ ĵ ŝ and ŭ -- don't appear in the standard ASCII/ANSI character set; many authors choose to simply write the letter without the hat on it and put an x afterward, like so: cx, gx, hx, jx, sx, ux.[[hottip:*:Eventually, even Esperanto's creator decided that these funny-looking letters were a bad idea, and unsuccessfully [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformed_Esperanto tried to get rid of them.]]

Incidentally, "Esperanto" is of course itself an Esperanto word (it means ‘one who hopes’), hence is pronounced "ess-pear-AHN-toe", not "ess-per-rant-o".

Esperanto is supposed to have the advantage of being more "logical" than national languages. It has only [[http://donh.best.vwh.net/Esperanto/rules.html 16 grammatical rules]], and it (almost) never deviates from those rules; also, each letter is pronounced one way and one way only. By contrast, English (like most national languages) is full of all kinds of weird spelling and grammar rules that make it much harder to learn than it should be. In addition, Esperanto words are much more easily creatable, using prefixes and suffixes around the root word to handily morph words in any way necessary, thus making sentences more concise and language more literal. (Opinions vary on the subject of how colorful language equivalents have solidly found their way into the language, morphable like any other word.) Written Esperanto presents a bit of a problem in the digital age, since 6 letters of the Esperanto alphabet -- ĉ ĝ ĥ ĵ ŝ and ŭ -- don't appear in the standard ASCII/ANSI character set; many authors choose to simply write the letter without the hat on it and put an x afterward, like so: cx, gx, hx, jx, sx, ux.[[hottip:*:Eventually, even Esperanto's creator decided that these funny-looking letters were a bad idea, and unsuccessfully [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformed_Esperanto tried to get rid of them.]]

* ''Film/TheGreatDictator'': While the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Ger...]][[CaptainErsatz Tomanians]] spoke AsLongAsItSoundsForeign GratuitousGerman, the population of the Ghetto had all their signs written in Esperanto.

Esperanto is a language constructed by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887 to help foster communication between countries. It was designed to be an easy-to-learn international language. However, the vast majority of the vocabulary is based on Latinate roots, as 1887 was still the age of colonialism, so for non-Europeans it can be pretty hard to learn. Sadly, it didn't work as well as intended, thus spawning occasional mockery in modern media [[hottip:*:and murderous rage on the part of those who oppose movements that attempt to bridge social gaps; the Nazis outlawed Esperanto and even sent some of its speakers to the camps.]]. Even then, it's still a thriving language within its own media, and there are a few people around the world who have grown up with Esperanto as a first language[[hottip:*:in addition to a natural language, obviously]]. Some stories set in TheFuture use Esperanto as if it had become the main language. It's also occasionally used AsLongAsItSoundsForeign.

* ''TheGreatDictator'': While the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Ger...]][[CaptainErsatz Tomanians]] spoke AsLongAsItSoundsForeign GratuitousGerman, the population of the Ghetto had all their signs written in Esperanto.

* The ''StreetFighter'' movie has the fictional country of Shadaloo that speaks Esperanto.

* ''{{Touhou}}''. As shown in [[spoiler:Marisa B's]] Good Ending in ''Embodiment Of Scarlet Devil'', [[spoiler:some of Patchouli's books]] are written in Esperanto.

* In ''CwynhildsLoom'', Esperanto is the official language of {{Mars}} and is found on signs throughout the comic as well as on any type of computer output.

* ''TheJetsons'' took a long trip across the solar system to see a circus. There, the owner of a trained-flea act sold them his fleas [?]. George Jetson picked the fleas up and heard them making some noises. He knew they were trying to talk to him, but he couldn't understand what they were saying. George turned to his son, Elroy, and said, "You're the one taking Esperanto lessons? you talk to them!" Elroy was able to translate for the fleas!
* The ghost Wulf in ''DannyPhantom'' talks in broken Esperanto, and only Tucker can understand it at first. Danny and later Sam take Esperanto lessons.

* Mocked by an alien in ''TheTick'': "Actually, Tick, I've taught myself to speak all your Earth languages. Except Esperanto. *chuckles* You could see ''that'' one was going nowhere."