INDECS, Vol. 13 No. 2, 2015.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.7906/indecs.13.2.9
How Many People Speak Esperanto? Esperanto on the Web
Amri Wandel
; Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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
Hrčak ID:
138519
URI
Publication date:
30.4.2015.
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