Ido

Ido is a constructed language, arguably the second-most used International Auxiliary Language in the world. It was developed in the early 1900s, and retains a small following today, primarily in Europe. It is largely based on Esperanto, created by L. L. Zamenhof. Ido first appeared in 1907 as a result of a desire to reform perceived flaws in Esperanto that its supporters believed to be a hindrance in its propagation as an easy-to-learn second language. Many other reform projects appeared after Ido such as Occidental and Novial appeared afterwards but have since faded into obscurity, and at present Ido, along with Esperanto and Interlingua are the only auxiliary languages with a large body of literature and a relatively large speaker base. The name of the language may have its origin in the Ido pronunciation of "I.D." (from "International Delegation", see below) or the word ido, "descendant (of Esperanto)".

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Ido uses the twenty-six latin letters used in the English alphabet with no diacritics. While still being completely gramatically regular, Ido resembles Romance languages in appearance and is sometimes mistaken for Italian or Spanish at first glance. Ido will be largely intelligible for those who have studied Esperanto as well, though there are certain differences in word-formation, grammar and grammatical function words that make it more than a simple reform project, and Ido is a stand-alone language. After its inception Ido gained wide support (estimates generally range around 30%) from the Esperanto community at the time, and since then with the sudden death of one of its proponents, Louis Couturat in 1914, further schisms through other reform projects as well as a lack of awareness of Ido as a candidate for an international language weakened the movement further, and it was not until the rise of the internet that Ido began regaining its previous momentum.

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