Comparison between Esperanto and Ido Comparison between Esperanto and Ido Ido, like Esperanto, is a constructed international auxiliary language. L. L. Zamenhof published his constructed language under the pseudonym Dr Esperanto in 1887. It immediately became popular, but soon people were making suggestions as to how they thought it might be improved. Zamenhof responded by making a list of possible changes to Esperanto and in 1894 put them before the Esperanto community. If accepted they would create what Dr Zamenhof called "a Reformed Esperanto". This proposed reformed Esperanto is sometimes referred to as Esperanto 1894. However, when the Esperanto community was invited to vote on
Comparison between Ido and Interlingua Comparison between Ido and Interlingua Ido and Interlingua are two constructed languages created in the 20th century. Both have had some measure of success, but Interlingua has enjoyed greater diffusion and acceptance by public and private institutions—it is taught in many high schools and universities, for example. Ido is what is called "schematic" (easier to learn for speakers of very different languages), whereas Interlingua is what is called "naturalistic" (easier to understand for speakers of related languages). While both languages have a majority of Latin/Romance words in their lexicons, Ido has a somewhat larger number of Germanic and Slavic words,