Editing Esperantujo (section)

== Etymology and terminology ==
The word is formed analogously to country names. In Esperanto, the names of countries were traditionally formed from the ethnic name of their inhabitants plus the suffix ''-ujo''. For example, "France" was {{Lang|eo|Francujo}}, from {{Lang|eo|franco}} (a Frenchman).

The term analogous to ''Francujo'' would be ''Esperantistujo'' (Esperantist-nation). However, that would convey the idea of a physical body of people, whereas using the name of the language as the basis of the word gives it the more abstract connotation of a cultural sphere.

Currently, names of [[nation state]]s are often formed with the suffix ''-io'' (traditionally reserved for deriving country names from geographic features — e.g. {{Lang|eo|Francio}} instead of {{Lang|eo|Francujo}}), and recently the form ''Esperantio'' has been used, among others, in the [[Pasporta Servo]] and the Esperanto Citizens' Community.