tags	collections, iteration, hashes, arrays, sorting, bonus
languages	ruby
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Alphabetize in Esperanto

Introduction

Esperanto is one of the most popular international auxiliary languages. These are languages meant for communication between people from different nations who do not share a common native language.

Objective

Write a method that will take an array of strings and sort them alphabetically based on the Esperanto alphabet. The Esperanto alphabet is pretty similar to the English alphabet, as you can see:

ESPERANTO_ALPHABET = "abcĉdefgĝhĥijĵklmnoprsŝtuŭvz"

Example

For instance, the array below:

["mi amas vin", "bonan matenon", "pacon", "ĉu vi parolas esperanton"]

Should become:

["bonan matenon", "ĉu vi parolas esperanton", "mi amas vin", "pacon"]

If you'd like to know what these phrases or words translate to, translate them on Google Translate.

Hints

Think about how you would do this using the sort_by method.

Resources

• Ruby's sort_by Method
• Wikipedia - Esperanto Alphabet
• Google Translate - Esperanto to English