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. The first Esperanto textbook was published on July 26, 1887, by its inventor L.L. Zamenhof Over 1,000 speakers of Esperanto have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A short history of Anarchist participation in the Esperantist Labour movement. Some Concerns with the 53rd Universal Congress of Esperanto by Eduardo Vivancos Eduardo Vivancos's criticisms of the ...