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Esperanto is the most widely spoken constructed international language. The name derives from Doktoro Esperanto (Dr. Hopeful), the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof first published the language in 1887. Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy-to-learn and flexible language as a universal second language to foster international understanding.
Although Esperanto is not official in any country or at the United Nations, it has, since its publication, enjoyed continuous usage by a small but growing community. Today Esperanto is employed in world travel, correspondence, cultural exchange, conventions, literature, language instruction and radio broadcasting. There are even a thousand or so native Esperanto speakers.
Wikipedia in Esperanto (Vikipedio) has 99,000 articles as of May 24, 2008, a remarkable count for a planned-language Wikipedia version, and will likely exceed 100,000 articles shortly in June 2008.
(Novaĵo pri Esperanto)
- Esperanto internet news portal Ĝangalo launches Internacia Televido ("International Television"), an all-Esperanto-language on-line television station. It is accessible at Internacia.tv with information in English here.
The Unua Libro (First Book) was the first publication to describe the international language, Esperanto (then called Lingvo Internacia, "international language"). First published in Russian on July 26, 1887, later editions were published in Russian, 1888, Hebrew, 1889. Polish, French, German and English. This booklet included the Lord's Prayer, some Bible verses, a letter, poetry, the sixteen rules of grammar and 900 roots of vocabulary. Zamenhof declared: "An international language, like a national one, is common property." Zamenhof signed the work as "Doktoro Esperanto," and the title Esperanto stuck as the name of the language — which in Esperanto means "one who hopes." Find out more...
- kaj [rhymes with "high"] meaning: "and"
- al meaning: "to" or "toward"
- el meaning: "from" or "out of"
- knabo meaning: "boy"
- knabino meaning: "girl"
- lingvo meaning: "language"
- amo meaning: "love"
- amanto meaning: "lover"
- amkanto meaning: "love song"
- ...that Moresnet — from 1816 to 1919 a European territory located between Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands — had proposed the use of Esperanto as its official language?
- ...that Hungarians may elect among several languages when taking their university entrance exams and that Esperanto is the fourth language on the list?
- ...that Wikipedia in Esperanto (Vikipedio) is one of the few Wikipedias with over 50,000 articles? As of May 2008 it has more than 98,000 articles.
- ...that the article "Esperanto" has been chosen as a Featured article in eight languages: Esperanto, French, Finnish, German, Polish, Russian, and Swedish?
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Subcategories of Category:Esperanto:
Culture - History - Esperantists - Language - Media - Organization - Esperantido - Films - Literature - Music
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(en) Wikipedia (eo) Vikipedio, Wikipedia in Esperanto |
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(en) Wikiquote (en) Quotes about Esperanto (en) (eo) Quotes by L. L. Zamenhof (eo) Vikicitaro, Wikiquote in Esperanto |
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(en) Wikisource (eo) Vikifonto, Wikisource in Esperanto |
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(en) Wikimedia commons (eo) (fr) Audio version of Zamenhof's discourse (en) (eo) Illustrations for the articles about Esperanto |
