Jouko Lindstedt


Jouko Lindstedt is a Finnish linguist and a professor at the University of Helsinki. Lindstedt is a member of the Academy of Esperanto and was even nominated as the Esperantist of the Year in 2000, nominated by The Wave of Esperanto.

The number of Esperanto speakers

In 1996 Jouko Lindstedt estimated the number of speakers of Esperanto, saying:
Lindstedt explains that these are very imprecise figures; they mean, for example, that "if it is estimated the number of native Esperanto speakers only in hundreds, it may be too little, but there is not many thousands of them." According to feedback from Lindstedt, Edmund Grimley Evans has modified the scheme by adding