For a language meant to serve as a means of universal communication, Esperanto is frequently—and ironically—misunderstood. The most popular constructed language in the world was created in 1887 by L.L ...

Friday, July 26, is World Esperanto Day. Today on KUOW Presents, producer Roman Mars told us about the history of the invented language Esperanto. Esperanto's a language born out of the dream that if ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Esperanto teacher instructs a class in a room with a painting of the language's creator on the wall. Janek Skarzynski/AFP via ...

In the late 1800s, the city of Białystok—which was once Polish, then Prussian, then Russian, and is today again part of Poland—was a hub of diversity, with large numbers of Poles, Germans, Russians ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first Esperanto textbook was published on July 26, 1887, by its inventor L.L. Zamenhof Over 1,000 speakers of Esperanto have ...

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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 ...

Esperanto creator L.L. Zamenhof. Staff Writer Over 1,000 speakers of Esperanto have been expected to gather this week at the 101st World Esperanto Congress in Slovakia to celebrate Tuesday as the ...