Esperanto

Speakers of toki pona have formed a large online community. On Discord, the largest toki pona community claims approximately 13,000 members (as of February 1, 2024), more than the largest Na’vi community at approximately 9,600 members, the largest Interslavic community at approximately 8,000 members, or the largest Esperanto community at approximately 7,400 members.

2024 April 16, Rebecca Bettencourt (jan Lepeka), et al., “Preliminary proposal to encode sitelen pona in the UCS”, in Unicode, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2025, pages 2-3

Other auxlangs of this period include Joseph Schipfer’s Communicationssprache (1839), a simplified version of French; Jean Pirro’s Universalglot (1868), one of the first fully developed auxlangs to integrate linguistic features from multiple languages; and Johann Martin Schleyer’s Volapük (1880), which was the most successful auxlang until Esperanto supplanted it.

2026 June 28 (last accessed), Nathan Sanders, “A primer on constructed languages”, in University of Toronto, archived from the original on 01 Nov 2025, page 7

[Compared] to the Esperanto of the Eye, [cinema], [Esperanto's] conquest of the Earth is painfully slow[.]

1923, Edward Sims Van Zile, “The Movie as a World Language”, in That Marvel—the Movie, page 193

I think there is increasingly a homogenized voice, an Esperanto in the ear.

1981, Ellen Goodman, “Where did all the accents go?”, in Sarasota Journal, page 6A

[…]making its usual explicit request in the Esperanto of brutality.

1994, Terry Pratchet, Interesting Times

The instrument of this dumbing down in Nineteen Eighty-Four was Newspeak, the official language of the English Socialist Party (Ingsoc). Newspeak was a sort of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting and manufacturing words.

2021 January 5, Peter Foster, “Peter Foster: Sustainable Newspeak by 2050”, in Financial Post, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2021

There may have been a few slippages when the show's American English was translated for foreign audiences—Alerte à Malibu! Mishmar Ha-Mifratz!—but the theme song was pure Esperanto, a joyous surge of energy and desire that was instantly comprehensible from Quito to Tehran.

2022, James Brooke-Smith, Accelerate!: A History of the 1990s, The History Press, →ISBN