esperanto
世界语,世俗语,埃及语,埃斯佩尔语
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- : an artificial language invented in 1887 by L. L. Zamenhof, a Polish physician and philologist, and intended for international use. It is based on word roots common to the major European languages.
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Examples
And Mangum swears that his knowledge of Esperanto better prepared him to learn Spanish.
Esperanto fell well short of Zamenhof's goal of a universal second language, but it was not a complete failure.
Nowhere is this pipe dream more obvious than in the history of Esperanto, one of the world's most well-known invented languages.
To this day, many Esperanto enthusiasts, including Doug Mangum of Greensboro, N.C., share in this frustration.
It is curious to notice that the apparently innocent invention of Esperanto receives support from the same quarter.
Here is a leaflet about the Panama Exposition published in Esperanto.
Here is a bookseller in Paris issuing a catalogue entirely in Esperanto.
For instance, in Paris and Barcelona there are many thousands who understand Esperanto.
The town of Antwerp publishes an illustrated guide of the town in Esperanto.