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Esperanto has a pretty big, organised and active community. But you're right. I also think popularity should be the decider. If Esperanto thinks it should be the chosen auxiliary language, it will have to earn it.

Personally though, I prefer Ido over Esperanto.



Define "pretty big".


Around year 2000 there were about 2 million speakers. It's way above any other conlang.


That's akin to being the biggest fish in a fishbowl. There are minor dialects of minor languages with more speakers.


The question was about conlangs, which have the advantage of being designed to be easier to learn.

Esperanto is so easy it can be learned in negative time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaedeutic_value_of_Espera....




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