If you frequent websites that contain artificially constructed languages — and really, who doesn’t? — you’ll be pleased to know that Esperanto has been added as the 64th supported language in Google Translate. For the unfamiliar, Esperanto was intended to be a politically neutral language created by LL Zamenhof in the late 1800s. Zamenhof’s goal was to create a language that would be easy to learn, transcended nationality, and, ultimately, foster world peace. However, today it’s estimated that there are only ten thousand to two million Esperanto speakers in the world, with only a few hundred native speakers. So why add support for the obscure language? Google said it was to recognize that the goal of Esperanto and Google Translate…
