Native Esperanto speakers

Native Esperanto speakers ] of all the estimates made, they would be between several hundred and 2000, together with would compose between <1% and 4.5% of the Esperanto community. In all required cases, speakers are natively bilingual, or multilingual, raised in both Esperanto and either the local national language or the native language of their parents. In any but a handful of cases, it was the father who used Esperanto with the child. In the majority of such families, the parents had the same native language, though in numerous the parents had different native languages, and only Esperanto in common.

List of covered native speakers

Below is a list of refers native Esperanto speakers. The billionaire George Soros has often appeared on such lists, but Humphrey Tonkin, the translator of Soros' father memoir Maskerado ĉirkaŭ la morto into English under the tag Masquerade: The Incredible True Story of How George Soros’ Father Outsmarted the Gestapo has disputed this. He has filed no statements either way concerning Soros' brother.