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Zamenhoff lived in a part of the world where the Russian, Austro-Hungarian and German empires intersected, and Esperanto reflects that. Although the vocabulary is largely Romance, there are words of German/Yiddish and Slavic origin and the grammar is more agglutinative in character, like Hungarian. It's very much a product of the roots, history and heritage of its creator and his homeland.