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Esperanto is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language in the world. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto, the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, in 1887. The word esperanto means 'one who hopes' in the language itself. Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy and flexible language that would serve as a universal second language to foster peace and international understanding.
Esperanto has had continuous usage by a community estimated at between 100,000 and 2 million speakers for over a century, and approximately one thousand native speakers. However, no country has adopted the language officially. Today, Esperanto is employed in world travel, correspondence, cultural exchange, conventions, literature, language instruction, television, and radio broadcasting. Also, there is an Esperanto Wikipedia that contains about 115,300 articles as of June 30, 2009.
There is evidence that learning Esperanto may provide a good foundation for learning languages in general. Some state education systems offer basic instruction and elective courses in Esperanto. Esperanto is also the language of instruction in one university, the Akademio Internacia de la Sciencoj in San Marino.
Antoni Grabowski (June 11, 1857 in Nowe Dobra, a village 10 km northeast of Chełmno – July 4, 1921 in Warsaw) was a Polish chemical engineer, and an activist of the early Esperanto movement. His translations had an influential impact on the development of Esperanto into a language of literature.
Grabowski was a longstanding chairman of the Warsaw Esperanto Society, founded in 1904, and of the Polish Esperanto Society, founded in 1908. In the same year he became director of the Grammar section of the Esperanto Academy. He published articles and gave lectures on Esperanto and organized Esperanto language courses. Find out more...
Colors (la koloroj)
- ruĝa meaning: "red"
- oranĝkolora meaning: "orange"
- flava meaning: "yellow"
- verda meaning: "green"
- blua meaning: "blue"
- purpura meaning: "purple"
- nigra meaning: "black"
- bruna meaning: "brown"
- griza meaning: "gray"
- blanka meaning: "white"
In Esperanto, a word may be made plural by simply adding "-j" to the end: domo = house, domoj = houses. (Note: In Esperanto, the letter "j" sounds like an English "y", so domoj is pronounced: "DOH-moy".)
- ...that William Shatner (of Star Trek fame) once starred in the feature-length Esperanto-language film Incubus?
- ...that Esperanto superseded another constructed language, Volapük, which is now mostly defunct?
- ...that Esperanto contains six letters found in no other alphabet: ĉ, ĝ, ĥ, ĵ, ŝ and ŭ?
- ...that Esperanto has no q, w, x or y?
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