Editing Esperanto (section)

== Official use ==
[[File:Moresnet.png|thumb|alt=|In 1908, [[Wilhelm Molly]] proposed making [[Neutral Moresnet]] the world's first Esperanto‑speaking state.]]

=== International organizations ===
Esperanto is the working language of several non-profit international organizations such as the {{lang|eo|[[Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda]]}}, a left-wing cultural association which had 724 members in over 85 countries in 2006.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Esperanto {{!}} language |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Esperanto |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724233935/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Esperanto |archive-date=July 24, 2021 |access-date=August 8, 2017 |work=Encyclopædia Britannica}}</ref> There is also Education@Internet, which has developed from an Esperanto organization; most others are specifically Esperanto organizations. The largest of these, the [[Universal Esperanto Association]], has an official consultative relationship with the United Nations and [[UNESCO]], which recognized Esperanto as a medium for international understanding in 1954.<ref name="UEA" /><ref>[http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0016/001607/160782eb.pdf Report on the international petition in favour of Esperanto] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304124631/http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0016/001607/160782eb.pdf|date=March 4, 2016}}, UNESCO, June 1, 1954</ref> The Universal Esperanto Association collaborated in 2017 with UNESCO to deliver an Esperanto translation<ref>{{cite web |title=Esperanto translation |url=http://uea.org/pdf/Unesko-Kuriero_1-2017.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180419214418/https://uea.org/pdf/Unesko-Kuriero_1-2017.pdf |archive-date=April 19, 2018 |access-date=January 31, 2018}}</ref> of its magazine ''[[UNESCO Courier]]'' ({{Langx|eo|Unesko Kuriero en Esperanto}}). The [[World Health Organization]] offered an Esperanto version of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] [[occupational safety and health]] education course.<ref>{{Cite web |title=OpenWHO {{!}} Courses |url=https://openwho.org/courses?lang=eo |access-date=2023-02-12 |publisher=[[World Health Organization]]}}</ref>

All personal documents sold by the [[World Service Authority]], including the [[World Passport]], are written in Esperanto, together with the official languages of the [[United Nations]]: [[English language|English]], [[French language|French]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[Russian language|Russian]], [[Arabic]], and [[Chinese language|Chinese]].<ref>{{cite web |title=World Government Documents (Personal) |url=http://worldservice.org/doc.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820073208/http://worldservice.org/doc.html |archive-date=August 20, 2017 |access-date=January 14, 2015 |publisher=Worldservice.org}}</ref>

=== Education ===
Esperanto has not been a secondary official language of any recognized country. However, it has entered the education systems of several countries, including Hungary<ref>Michael Byram and Adelheid Hu: ''Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning.'' 2nd edition. Taylor and Francis, Hoboken 2013, {{ISBN|978-1-136-23554-2}}, page 229.</ref> and China.<ref>{{cite web |title=Esperanto and Anarchism (translation of ''Lexikon der Anarchie, Schwarzer Nachtschatten''), Plön 1998, (ISBN 3-89041-014-6) The Anarchist Library |url=https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/will-firth-esperanto-and-anarchism |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808154726/https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/will-firth-esperanto-and-anarchism |archive-date=August 8, 2017 |access-date=August 8, 2017 |website=theanarchistlibrary.org}}</ref>

Esperanto was also the first language of teaching and administration of the now-defunct [[International Academy of Sciences San Marino]].<ref name="ais">{{cite web |title=Akademio Internacia de la Sciencoj (AIS) San-Marino |url=http://www.ais-sanmarino.org/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110427095758/http://www.ais-sanmarino.org/ |archive-date=April 27, 2011 |access-date=December 5, 2010 |publisher=Ais-sanmarino.org}}</ref>

The [[League of Nations]] made attempts to promote the teaching of Esperanto in its member countries, but the resolutions were defeated (mainly by French delegates, who did not feel there was a need for it).<ref>David Richardson: "Esperanto Learning and Using the International Language". Esperanto-USA 3rd edition 2004, {{ISBN|0-939785-06-4}} page 34</ref>

=== Media ===
The Chinese government has used Esperanto since 2001 for an Esperanto version of its [[China Internet Information Center]]. China also uses Esperanto in [[China Radio International]], and for the Internet magazine ''El Popola Ĉinio''.<ref>{{cite web |title=China Interreta Informa Centro-esperanto.china.org.cn |url=http://esperanto.china.org.cn/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210721151446/http://esperanto.china.org.cn/ |archive-date=July 21, 2021 |access-date=June 27, 2015 |work=china.org.cn}}</ref>

The [[Vatican Radio]] has an Esperanto version of its podcasts and its website.<ref>{{cite web |title=Radio Vatikana |url=http://eo.radiovaticana.va/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160211101325/http://eo.radiovaticana.va/ |archive-date=February 11, 2016}}</ref>

In the summer of 1924, the [[American Radio Relay League]] adopted Esperanto as its official international auxiliary language,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hamann |first=F.A. |date=April 1928 |title=The Progress of Esperanto since the World War |journal=The Modern Language Journal |volume=12 |issue=7 |pages=545–552 |doi=10.2307/315767 |jstor=315767 |issn = 0026-7902 }}</ref> and hoped that the language would be used by radio amateurs in international communications, but its actual use for radio communications was negligible.<ref>{{cite book |last=Forster |first=P. G. |title=The Esperanto Movement |publisher=Mouton |year=1982 |isbn=978-90-279-3399-7|pages=180–185}}</ref>

=== Proposed microstates and micronations ===
[[File:Isola delle Rose 1968.jpg|thumb|upright=1.437|The [[Republic of Rose Island]] in the [[Adriatic Sea]] used Esperanto as its official language in 1968; it has since been demolished]]
Beginning in 1908, there were efforts to establish the world's first Esperanto state in [[Neutral Moresnet]], which at the time was a [[Belgium|Belgian]]–[[Prussia]]n [[Condominium (international law)|condominium]] in central-western Europe. Any such efforts came to an end with the beginning of [[World War I]] and the [[German invasion of Belgium (1914)|German invasion of Belgium]], voiding the treaty which established joint sovereignty over the territory. The [[Treaty of Versailles]] subsequently awarded the disputed territory to Belgium, effective January 10, 1920.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Hoffmann |first1=Eduard |last2=Nendza |first2=Jürgen |date=2003-09-19 |editor-last=Zindel |editor-first=Udo |title=Galmei und Esperanto – Der fast vergessene europäische Kleinstaat Neutral-Moresnet |trans-title=Galmei and Esperanto – The almost forgotten European microstate Neutral Moresnet |url=http://www.swr.de/-/id%3D11528232/property%3Ddownload/nid%3D660374/1orb31p/swr2-wissen-20130820.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315141447/http://www.swr.de/-/id=11528232/property=download/nid=660374/1orb31p/swr2-wissen-20130820.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-15 |publisher=[[SWR2|SWR2 Wissen]] |pages=8–10 |language=de}}</ref>

The self-proclaimed [[micronation]] of [[Republic of Rose Island|Rose Island]], on an artificial island near [[Italy]] in the [[Adriatic Sea]], used Esperanto as its official language in 1968. Another micronation, the extant [[Republic of Molossia]], near [[Dayton, Nevada]], uses Esperanto as an official language alongside English.<ref>{{cite web |title=What is Esperanto? |url=http://www.molossia.org/esperanto.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706103815/http://www.molossia.org/esperanto.html |archive-date=July 6, 2017 |access-date=August 4, 2017 |website=Republic of Molossia |quote=Esperanto is the second language of the Republic of Molossia. |location=Dayton, Nevada}}</ref>