Esperanto Antaŭen’s List of Basic Esperanto Morphemes (vocabulary items).

Esperanto Antaŭen thanks the Croatian Esperanto activist Dr. Zlatko Tišlar for his leadership in the valuable work of identifying the most commonly used Esperanto Morphemes (http://www.ipernity.com/blog/pajo.zlatko/1582384).

More than 20 years ago, Dr. Tišlar analyzed samples of Esperanto to find the most commonly used and therefore most important morphemes for new students of Esperanto to learn. Later, collaborating with others, additional samples were analyzed to update the list with greater confidence in its accuracy. Esperanto Antaŭen teaches using the List of Basic Esperanto Morphemes below which is identical to Dr. Tišlar list with the following exceptions:

• Reasoning that the importance of place names will vary from country to country, four geographical morphemes (eŭrop, german, ital,and uson) have been removed.
• Reasoning that reforms to Esperanto (currently used by a small minority of speakers) resulting in linguistic equal treatment of the sexes will become standard, one morpheme “iĉ” (a parallel male suffix to the original female suffix “in”) has been added, and the meaning of a second “ĝi” (originally a third person singular pronoun for inanimate objects – “it”) has been stretched to include any animate meaning (a singular “they”).
• The morpheme “kart” (card) has also been added because Esperanto Antaŭen’s primary teaching materials are card games and the word for card is needed.

There are two parts to this list. Mastering the first part (451 morphemes) will give students the vocabulary items necessary to understand about 95% of the words normally used in spoken Esperanto. To also understand 95% of written Esperanto a student will also need to master the additional 89 morphemes in the second part of this list.

Basic List (part 1)

Basic List (part 2)