esperanto_story1-7, Exercise 2: "Esperanto is European only"

Model answer (check the details):

Evidence for: the vocabulary comes mostly from Romance, Germanic and some Slavic languages; the founder and early movement were European; most congresses before the 1960s were held in Europe.

Evidence against: strong groups in Japan (including links with Oomoto), activity and publishing in China, growth of the movement in other parts of Asia and the Americas, and congresses held outside Europe in later decades.

Missing: reliable counts of speakers by region, and an analysis of grammar as well as vocabulary (the structure has been compared with agglutinative languages).

Verdict: "European in origin and vocabulary, but not European only in membership."