The President reckoned that although English was doing quite well as a world language, they wanted Esperanto to become the next world language. |
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This is basically akin to saying Esperanto will make learning languages obsolete. |
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These groups were interested in internationalism, saw the need for an international language, and started teaching themselves Esperanto. |
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Klingon may be an artificial language, but so is Esperanto, which has thousands of speakers worldwide. |
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Such alternatives purport to be universal, but they are universal in much the same way that Esperanto is a universal language. |
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Did you actually learn Esperanto, or did you just learn your lines by rote? |
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Then came the fusion band Esperanto, who had a veena, mandolin, flute, and assorted percussion instruments and guitars. |
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The script's rendering into Latin, Hebrew, and Aramaic is of a heroic painstakingness not seen since the mid '60s heyday of Esperanto cinema. |
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The creators of Ido felt that much of Esperanto was either not internationally recognizable, or unnecessarily deformed. |
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He became a prime mover in the development of an international language Ido based on Esperanto. |
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I'm not sure where a constructed language intended for use, like Esperanto, would lie. |
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It consists, just as Esperanto, of completely invariable blocks that combine without restriction. |
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He's better than you and me, and to top it all off he can speak the international language of Esperanto. |
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He reads widely in English and French, and also in Esperanto, a language through which he has made friends from all over the world. |
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The other much vaunted advantage of Esperanto over English is, as I mentioned, that it's neutral. |
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As we speak, Esperanto is being corrupted by upstart languages. |
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He's one of Lancashire's leading Esperantists and met fellow language lovers on Saturday to converse at the North West Esperanto Federation meeting in Preston. |
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Stephen, who said he has tried his hand at German, Latin and Classical Greek, is fluent in Esperanto and holds regular meetings at his home for fellow linguists. |
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Not only literary works began to be translated into other languages and disseminated but there were also several attempts to create a global unifying language like Esperanto. |
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Topics have included the history of megaliths, the semi-defunct international language Esperanto, underground Japanese cinema and music broadcast to and from space. |
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To this day, many Esperanto enthusiasts, including Doug Mangum of Greensboro, N.C., share in this frustration. |
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Algol, a language suitable for expressing algorithms, is the computational equivalent of Esperanto, created in 1960 by an international committee. |
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Artificial human languages like Esperanto are a more difficult case. |
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And Mangum swears that his knowledge of Esperanto better prepared him to learn Spanish. |
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Esperanto fell well short of Zamenhof's goal of a universal second language, but it was not a complete failure. |
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Nowhere is this pipe dream more obvious than in the history of Esperanto, one of the world's most well-known invented languages. |
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Esperanto is probably between the fifty languages which are most used internationally. |
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In 1922 a proposal by Iran and several other countries in the League of Nations to have Esperanto taught in member nations' schools failed. |
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It was mostly inspired by Idiom Neutral and Occidental, yet it attempted a derivational formalism and schematism sought by Esperanto and Ido. |
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Esperanto is by far the most widely spoken constructed language in the world. |
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Speakers are most numerous in Europe and East Asia, especially in urban areas, where they often form Esperanto clubs. |
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All of the auxlangs with a surviving speaker community seem to have benefited from the advent of the Internet, Esperanto more than most. |
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Linguistic diversity within a country was found to have a slight inverse correlation with Esperanto popularity. |
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Gestuno is not to be confused with the separate and unrelated sign language Signuno, which is essentially a Signed Exact Esperanto. |
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Signuno is not in any significant use, and is based on the Esperanto community rather than based on the international Deaf community. |
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As of 1996, there were approximately 350 attested cases of families with native Esperanto speakers. |
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There are more than 25,000 Esperanto books, both originals and translations, as well as several regularly distributed Esperanto magazines. |
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Historically, much Esperanto music, such as Kaj Tiel Plu, has been in various folk traditions. |
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Esperantists speak primarily in Esperanto at international Esperanto meetings. |
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In Stamboul Train, Greene used Esperanto as the language on signs at the main train station in Budapest. |
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A number of mainstream films in national languages have used Esperanto in some way. |
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Esperanto is used as the universal language in the far future of Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat and Deathworld stories. |
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The composer, Nobuo Uematsu, felt that Esperanto was a good language to symbolize worldwide unity. |
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Esperanto is also found in the comic book series Saga as the language Blue, spoken by the inhabitants of Wreath. |
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Additionally many of the signs around the ship Red Dwarf are written in both English and Esperanto. |
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In 1921 the French Academy of Sciences recommended using Esperanto for international scientific communication. |
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A message in Esperanto was recorded and included in Voyager 1's Golden Record. |
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The Russian census of 2010 found 992 speakers of Esperanto, 9 of Ido, 1 of Edo and no speakers of Slovio or Interlingua. |
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Esperanto was to serve as an international auxiliary language, that is, as a universal second language, not to replace ethnic languages. |
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This goal was widely shared among Esperanto speakers in the early decades of the movement. |
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The Oomoto religion encourages the use of Esperanto among its followers and includes Zamenhof as one of its deified spirits. |
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Therefore I hope that you will make the utmost effort, so that this language of Esperanto may be widely spread. |
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Brazil is the first country in South America to offer Esperanto to secondary students. |
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The Universal Esperanto Association has more than 5500 members in 120 countries. |
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After he suggested that Esperanto replace English as an international lingua franca, it began to be used in the seminaries of Qom. |
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An Esperanto translation of the Qur'an was published by the state shortly thereafter. |
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Several later constructed languages, such as Universal, were based on Esperanto. |
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The lack of dedicated government support for Esperanto means that replacing English as the global link language is rather limited. |
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He was an early supporter of the Esperanto offshoot Ido and in 1927 published his own project Novial. |
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Its infinitive is esar, and, as in Esperanto, all of its forms are regular like all other verbs. |
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On 22 February 2012, Google Translate added Esperanto as its 64th language. |
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William Edward Collinson wrote a vulgarization book in Esperanto about linguistics. |
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The attention to Volapuk is appreciated, the coverage of Esperanto multifaceted and sympathetic. |
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On 28 May 2015, the language learning platform Duolingo launched an Esperanto course for English speakers. |
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Although no country has adopted Esperanto officially, Esperantujo is the collective name given to places where it is spoken. |
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Esperanto PEN Centro is the official branch of Esperanto writers in PEN International. |
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Esperanto is currently the language of instruction of the International Academy of Sciences in San Marino. |
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The European Esperanto Union also promotes Esperanto as the international auxiliary language of Europe. |
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However, two years later, the League recommended that its member states include Esperanto in their educational curricula. |
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For this reason, many people see the 1920s as the heyday of the Esperanto movement. |
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Anarchism as a political movement was very supportive during this time of anationalism as well as of the Esperanto language. |
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In his biography on Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky mentions that Stalin had studied Esperanto. |
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Auxiliary languages, such as Esperanto, Ido, and Interlingua have comparatively simple inflectional systems. |
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In Esperanto, however, adjectives must agree in both number and case with the nouns that they qualify. |
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There were plans at the beginning of the 20th century to establish Neutral Moresnet as the world's first Esperanto state. |
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The Chinese government has used Esperanto since 2001 for daily news on china. |
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The US Army has published military phrase books in Esperanto, to be used from the 1950s until the 1970s in war games by mock enemy forces. |
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Esperanto is also the first language of teaching and administration of one university, the International Academy of Sciences San Marino. |
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The Esperanto Society played a significant part in the first year when it was felt that there could be a shortage of participants. |
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Esperanto speakers at meetings often use the song La Espero as their anthem. |
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Esperanto words are mostly derived by stringing together roots, grammatical endings, and at times prefixes and suffixes. |
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The Hungarian Academy of Sciences has found that Esperanto fulfills all the requirements of a living language. |
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Esperanto has 23 consonants, five vowels, and two semivowels that combine with the vowels to form six diphthongs. |
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Esperanto has the five vowels found in such languages as Spanish, Swahili, Modern Hebrew, and Modern Greek. |
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Moreover Esperanto is quicker to learn than other languages, usually in a third up to a fifth of the time. |
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In 1894, Zamenhof published the first Esperanto dictionary, Universala Vortaro, which had a larger set of roots. |
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Instead of derivations of Esperanto roots, new roots are taken from European languages in the endeavor to create an international language. |
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He concludes that Esperanto tends to be more popular in countries that are rich, with widespread Internet access and that tend to contribute more to science and culture. |
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Thus English has grown in worldwide use much more than any constructed language proposed as an international auxiliary language, including Esperanto. |
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International auxiliary languages such as Esperanto have not had a great degree of adoption globally so they cannot be described as global lingua francas. |
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The League rejected adopting Esperanto as its working language. |
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China and Japan wanted Esperanto but France was strongly opposed. |
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Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto, was among the attendees. |
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Esperanto is part of the educational system in several member states. |
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Esperanto grammar involves only two cases, a nominative and an accusative. |
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Often, the term is used to refer to planned or constructed languages proposed specifically to ease international communication, such as Esperanto, Ido and Interlingua. |
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Constructed languages like Esperanto and Interlingua are in fact often simpler due to the typical lack of irregular verbs and other grammatical quirks. |
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There was a proposal to make Esperanto its official language. |
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Fascist Italy allowed the use of Esperanto, finding its phonology similar to that of Italian and publishing some tourist material in the language. |
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Esperanto has not been a secondary official language of any recognized country, but it entered the education system of several countries such as Hungary and China. |
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On the other hand, one common criticism made is that Esperanto has failed to live up to the hopes of its creator, who dreamed of it becoming a universal second language. |
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Paul Wexler proposes that Esperanto is relexified Yiddish, which he claims is in turn a relexified Slavic language, though this model is not accepted by mainstream academics. |
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The following short extract gives an idea of the character of Esperanto. |
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The Senate of Brazil passed a bill in 2009 that would make Esperanto an optional part of the curriculum in public schools, although mandatory if there is demand for it. |
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Various educators have estimated that Esperanto can be learned in anywhere from one quarter to one twentieth the amount of time required for other languages. |
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The results of these studies were favorable and demonstrated that studying Esperanto before another foreign language expedites the acquisition of the other, natural language. |
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Underlying every Esperanto enthusiast is the Esperantist ideal that the world would be a better place if everyone could understand each other better. |
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In the Almanac, his estimates for numbers of language speakers were rounded to the nearest million, thus the number for Esperanto speakers is shown as two million. |
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This usually happens when Esperanto is the chief or only common language in an international family, but sometimes occurs in a family of devoted Esperantists. |
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The French Chamber of Commerce did research in the 1920s and reported in The New York Times in 1921 that Esperanto seemed to be the best business language. |
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The Brazilian Spiritist Federation publishes Esperanto coursebooks, translations of Spiritism's basic books, and encourages Spiritists to become Esperantists. |
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Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran called on Muslims to learn Esperanto and praised its use as a medium for better understanding among peoples of different religious backgrounds. |
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In Esperanto each letter has only one sound, and each sound is represented in only one way. The words are pronounced exactly as spelt, every letter being sounded. |
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