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Esperanto

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Esperanto , an artificial language introduced in 1887 and intended by its inventor, Dr. Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof (1859-1917), a Polish oculist and linguist, to ease communication between speakers of different languages. In the 20th cent. it has been taught in schools and universities throughout the world but has not received wide acceptance as an international language. Its grammar and lexicon are relatively unfamiliar to users who do not know other Indo-European languages; its syntax, spelling, and pronunciation are influenced especially by Slavonic. See international language . Author... Read more

Esperanto
...second language. Zamenhof's Fundamento de Esperanto (1905) outlines its basic principles...for each tense or mood. The Universal Esperanto Association (founded 1908) has members in 83 countries. Estimates of the number of Esperanto-speakers range from 100,000 to several... Read more

Esperanto
Esperanto XIX. Pen-name Dr. Esperanto (i.e. ‘hoping one’) of the inventor, L. L. Zamenhof. Read more

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	Fundamentals of Esperanto.(Poem) ; Fundamentals of Esperanto The grammatical rules of this language...friend is here. A new book appears in Esperanto every week. Radio stations in Europe...China, Russia & Brazil broadcast in Esperanto, as does Radio Vatican. In 1954, UNESCO... Read more
	Scots Esperanto author gets Nobel nomination ; ...he first picked up a book written in Esperanto. "My mother was bilingual in English...has become the first person writing in Esperanto to be nominated for the Nobel Prize for...David Bisset, secretary of the Scottish Esperanto Association. "Bill Auld is a very great... Read more
	TALKING TO THEMSELVES ESPERANTO SPEAKERS FIND FEW CONVERTS ; ...their best to sway students to learn Esperanto. To galvanize interest in the would-be...Schwartz, the president of MIT's Societo por Esperanto. "This time we decided to use a different...wanted them to see the pragmatic side of Esperanto." Over the past few weeks, MIT's decades-o... Read more
	Esperanto date.(News) ; ENTHUSIASTIC Esperanto speakers are heading to Southport to...on the resort in May for the British Esperanto Congress. Anyone who is interested...more can go along and find out why Esperanto is still going strong, many years after... Read more
	Speaking Up for Esperanto. ; Over the years, Esperanto enthusiasts have grown thick skins...threatened by it, he expelled Iraq's only Esperanto teacher during his tyrannical regime...Communist Hungary at the 1946 World Esperanto Congress in Switzerland. To hear a... Read more
	Global Esperanto gathering concludes in Beijing ; China's support for Esperanto was hailed over the weekend at the...language in Beijing. The 89th Universal Esperanto Conference wrapped up in the Chinese...curricula. Advocates and proponents of Esperanto have over the years popularized Esperanto... Read more
	Analysis: Esperanto still spoken in Bialystok, Poland, but is a dying language ; 00-00-0000 Analysis: Esperanto still spoken in Bialystok, Poland...Lingvo Internacia, better known as Esperanto, was spoken by hundreds of thousands...and '30s. Today, there aren' t many Esperanto speakers left. NPR's Guy Raz traveled... Read more
	Analysis: Esperanto still spoken in Bialystok, Poland, but is a dying language... ; 00-00-0000 Analysis: Esperanto still spoken in Bialystok, Poland...Lingvo Internacia, better known as Esperanto, was spoken by hundreds of thousands...and '30s. Today, there aren' t many Esperanto speakers left. NPR's Guy Raz traveled... Read more
	Listen up; An exercise in musical esperanto.(ENTERTAINMENT)(Review) ; ...remix specialists like the Dust Brothers (producers of Beck and the Beastie Boys), the quartet has pioneered its own musical esperanto. The group's latest project is an ambitious two-disc, 64-track set split into instrumental and vocal halves, creating more... Read more
	Advocates of Esperanto continue to lobby for their lingua franca.(includes related article on the history of Esperanto) ; More than a century after its invention, Esperanto still has its champions, who are coaxing...face of daunting odds, supporters of Esperanto, the century-old international language...believe they are gaining ground. Because Esperanto (which means a person who is hoping... Read more

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