“Saluton!” The greeting rings throughout the Sulzer Regional Library auditorium in Ravenswood as members of the Esperanto Society of Chicago gather for their monthly meeting. They have come to study ...

In his Tucson, Ariz., backyard, 10-year-old Linken Kay throws a ball for his dog, Harley. The dog speaks only English. But Linken was raised speaking another language. "Li ŝatas salti en la naĝejo por ...

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 ...

At two and a half years old, Gabriel Nacu can already boast an unusual skill. He’s beginning to string together full sentences in Esperanto, the language invented in the nineteenth century by the ...

Esther Schor, a professor of English, joined Princeton in 1986. Her scholarship focuses on two areas — British Romanticism, and religion and literature. She has also taught several courses in the ...

La tot’ homoze en familije konungiare so debà. May the whole of humanity be united as one. —Ludwik Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto To hear Esperanto spoken is to remember a song whose words you can’t ...

If only American swimmer Ryan Lochte had spoken Esperanto. Chances are pretty good that if you’re under 40, you’ve never heard of Esperanto, a language created in the 1800s that was envisioned as a ...

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 ...

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 ...