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Esperanto
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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Es·pe·ran·to
/ ˌespəˈräntō/
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n.
an artificial language devised in 1887 as an international medium of communication, based on roots from the chief European languages.
DERIVATIVES:
Es·pe·ran·tist
/ -tist/ n.
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Esperanto, Interlinguistics, and Planned Language.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Esperanto, Interlinguistics, and Planned Language...1997. xxiii + 256 pp. $42.50. Esperanto is one of the best-known examples of...international communication. The status of Esperanto as a living language can be easily demonstrated...
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ESPERANTO MAKES SENSE, ALTHOUGH FEW UNDERSTAND IT.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 5/23/1999; 700+ words
; ...popular than Coke. A universal language? Say ``Esperanto.'' Unlike Coke, Esperanto has not conquered the world. Unlike Fletcherism...remains on the tip of surprisingly many tongues. Esperanto? It's Greek to me: Esperanto was invented...
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+(via+Knight-Ridder%2fTribune+News+Service) "Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minn.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)")
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Esperanto, created more than 100 years ago as a universal language, has set few tongues wagging.
Newspaper article from: Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minn.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service); 9/9/2003; 700+ words
; ...then the answer is no, you don't speak Esperanto. If you don't even know what Esperanto is, much less speak it, then let us introduce...be easy to learn and politically neutral, Esperanto has been promoted as an international auxiliary...
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Esperanto still hasn't caught on, but language groups keep it alive
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 3/23/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...and are urging others to join them. Esperanto has languished in relative obscurity...around the globe who continue to speak Esperanto, meeting at international conferences...through an international network. "With Esperanto, each of the two people makes a step...
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ESPERANTO A surprising 2 million speakers worldwide get their words' worth; from the `planned language' created in the 19th century
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/12/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...popular than Coke. A universal language? Say "Esperanto." Unlike Coke, Esperanto has not conquered the world. Unlike Fletcherism...remains on the tip of surprisingly many tongues. Esperanto? It's Greek to me: Esperanto was invented...
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Esperanto, created more than 100 years ago as a universal language, has set few tongues wagging.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 9/29/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...then the answer is no, you don't speak Esperanto. If you don't even know what Esperanto is, much less speak it, then let us introduce...be easy to learn and politically neutral, Esperanto has been promoted as an international auxiliary...
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ESPERANTO VIVAS AFTER ALL THESE YEARS RODNEY DANGERFIELD OF TONGUES IS A CENTENARIAN
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/18/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...One's first impulse is to dismiss Esperanto as a wacky but harmless cause, like...language, and most of them, according to Esperanto teacher David Jordan, are "nerdy teen...Defense Department computers. Jokes about Esperanto leap to mind: It's the USA Today of...
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Esperanto, more than idealism: Renato Corsetti
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 7/29/2004; 629 words
; Esperanto, more than idealism: Renato Corsetti BEIJING, July 29 (Xinhua) -- "Esperanto is a way of growing out of infancy," said Renato Corsetti, president of the Universal Esperanto Association, in an exclusive interview with...
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Esperanto speakers gathering
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 7/26/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...curtain rose yesterday on another gala for Esperanto speakers around the world.The 89th Universal Esperanto Congress opened yesterday in Beijing...hosted the largest and most important Esperanto gathering, with more than 2,000 participants...
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Analysis: Esperanto still spoken in Bialystok, Poland, but is a dying language
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; 5/19/2001; ; 642 words
; 00-00-0000 Analysis: Esperanto still spoken in Bialystok, Poland...Lingvo Internacia, better known as Esperanto, was spoken by hundreds of thousands...30s. Today, there aren' t many Esperanto speakers left. NPR's Guy Raz traveled...
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Esperanto
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
Esperanto XIX. Pen-name Dr. Esperanto (i.e. ‘hoping one’) of the inventor, L. L. Zamenhof.
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Psychic Esperanto League (Palka Esperantista Ligo)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Psychic Esperanto League (Palka Esperantista Ligo) Founded in Britain by Alexander W. Thomson, F.B.E.A. in August 1934, with members...
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international language
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...proved to be difficult to learn and use. Esperanto , another artificial language, was invented...meetings and conferences. The vocabulary of Esperanto is formed by adding various affixes to...are influenced especially by Slavonic. Esperanto has a phonetic spelling. It uses the...
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Couturat, Louis
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...met and elected a committee to modify Esperanto. Couturat and L é au were the...vocabulary of Ido, a language derived from Esperanto with reforms growing out of scientific...changes in the already established forms of Esperanto. Couturat never completed this work...
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ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...LANGUAGE. 1. An invented language, such as Zamenhof's Esperanto , formed by blending elements of various Indo-European languages...promoted over the last 150 years, mostly without success. Esperanto is, however, well known and its name serves virtually as...
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