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| | Esperanto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Esperanto is particularly prevalent in the northern and eastern countries of Europe; in China, Korea, Japan, and Iran within Asia; in Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico in the Americas; and in Togo and Madagascar in Africa. |
 | | An estimate of the number of Esperanto speakers was made by Sidney S. Culbert, a retired psychology professor of the University of Washington and a longtime Esperantist, who tracked down and tested all Esperanto speakers in sample areas of dozens of countries over a period of twenty years. |
 | | It was to serve as an international auxiliary language, that is, as a universal second tongue, not to replace ethnic languages. |
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