A reformed version of Esperanto created in 1907 to address perceived flaws — the most significant Esperanto offshoot, with a small but persistent community.
Where it’s spoken
Ido (the name means “offspring” in Esperanto) was the product of a 1907 commission of philologists charged with choosing an international auxiliary language. They picked Esperanto with modifications — abandoning the accented letters, regularising the plural, and reforming the affixes. The resulting schism cost Esperanto a meaningful chunk of its movement at the time; today Ido has perhaps a few hundred active speakers worldwide.
What it sounds like
Phonologically and grammatically similar to Esperanto but with a more European-feeling vocabulary and no diacritics. Word order is freer; grammatical roles are marked entirely by suffixes.
How it’s written
The Latin alphabet, 26 letters, no diacritics — a deliberate fix for Esperanto’s six accented characters that complicated typesetting in the early 20th century.
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