EVERY one to-day has heard of Esperanto, the proposed universal language. But how many know more than the name ? A recent and very successful congress of Esperantists, at Boulogne, in France, has ...

An Esperanto teacher instructs a class in a room with a painting of the language's creator on the wall. Janek Skarzynski/AFP via Getty Images The promise of peace through a shared language has not yet ...

Languages are typically an essential means of identity, but also pose an unresolved dilemma: a paradox in which languages provide the opportunity to communicate, but only work within a given location ...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to join the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program for a hybrid lecture titled “Esperanto: The Rise, Fall and Rise of the International ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Christmas: a good time to broach a topic of hope. We’re talking Esperanto. This language that spurred the hope it one day could hack the barriers between people, eliminating war and miscommunication.

The international language Esperanto is an auxiliary language that was conceived and developed for international communication. Of around 1,000 known plans for auxiliary languages, Esperanto alone has ...

Esperanto is a language that was invented 130 years ago with the goal of uniting the world under a simplified common tongue and creating everlasting peace. Spoiler alert: That never happened. But the ...