Most languages develop through centuries of use among groups of people. But some have a different origin: They are invented, from scratch, from one individual’s mind. Familiar examples include the ...

On a recent Friday evening, the Esperanto Society of New York convened in a rowhouse on Manhattan’s East 35th Street. The upper floors of the building seemed to house a bilingual preschool, going by ...

It’s a late afternoon on Tuesday at the Bluewall Cafe and Steven Brewer, the founding father of the Amherst Esperanto Club, is telling a story about a man he knows through Esperanto, Dave Coffin from ...

One teacher’s mission to promote Esperanto across the island In a quiet classroom of 15 in Limassol, a language once feared by dictators is being brought back to life. Dr Roberto Pigro, a secondary ...

Esperanto, a universal language created by L. L. Zamenhof, has experienced fluctuating fortunes in Nepal since its introduction in 1957. Meaning “one who hopes” in English, Esperanto is the most ...

Karen Roehr-Brackin received funding from the Norwich Jubilee Esperanto Foundation (NoJEF) which supported one of the studies mentioned. Angela Tellier received funding from the Norwich Jubilee ...

(There was a time when speaking Esperanto was an essential part of being an anarchist.) When 97-year-old, Barcelona-born Eduardo Vivancos walks down the streets of Toronto where he has lived as an ...

I started learning Esperanto in high school after reading Harry Harrison's The Stainless Steel Rat books—in that series, Esperanto is spoken as the trade language of the galaxy. As I was doing three ...