Ido Translator

About Ido

Created in 1907 as a reformed offshoot of Esperanto, Ido is a constructed international auxiliary language rather than a member of a natural language family. It has no single native region, though its speakers and learners have historically been spread across Europe and elsewhere in small international networks. Estimates vary, but the speech community is generally described as several thousand people. Ido is usually written in the Latin alphabet.

A distinctive feature of Ido is its effort to regularize word formation and spelling while avoiding Esperanto’s accented letters, using only basic Latin characters instead. It also marks nouns ending in -o, adjectives in -a, and infinitives in -ar, patterns meant to make grammar transparent. Historically, Ido emerged from a reform movement within the early international-language movement and was presented by delegates connected with the Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language, which gave it an important place in that debate.