A Practical Guide to Ido

Welcome to my beginner’s guide to Ido, a simplified planned language based on Romance. It was invented in 1907 as a revision of Esperanto, an international auxiliary language created twenty years earlier, and remains the best known of the “Esperantidos” to this day.

On this site, you’ll find everything you need to start using Ido today.

Click here for some quick random samples.

GRAMMAR

An overview of how Ido works

LEXICON

Dictionaries and illustrated vocabularies

EXAMPLES

Ido in practice

ABOUT

What is Ido?