How Many People Speak Esperanto? Esperanto on the Web

Abstract

We suggest an updated estimate of the number of Esperanto speakers worldwide, based on the number of people in Facebook who indicate that they speak the language. A simple calculation accompanied by reasonable refinements leads to a number of approximately two million Esperanto users within the internet community alone, probably significantly more worldwide.

Keywords

• Esperanto
• Esperanto speech community
• Internet
• social networks