Portal:Esperanto
Esperanto is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language in the world. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto, the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, in 1887. The word esperanto means 'one who hopes' in the language itself. Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy and flexible language that would serve as a universal second language to foster peace and international understanding.
Esperanto has had continuous usage for over a century by a community now estimated at about 2 million speakers, and approximately one thousand native speakers. However, no country has adopted the language officially. Today, Esperanto is employed in world travel, correspondence, cultural exchange, conventions, literature, language instruction, television, and radio broadcasting. Also, there is an Esperanto Wikipedia with about 229,000 articles (as of May 25, 2016).
There is evidence that learning Esperanto may provide a good foundation for learning languages in general. Some state education systems offer basic instruction and elective courses in Esperanto. Esperanto is also the language of instruction in one university, the Akademio Internacia de la Sciencoj in San Marino.
Free on-line courses to teach the international language are available through lernu.net and duolingo.com. The first of these sites has over 211,600 registered users, who are able to view the site's interface in their choice of 18 languages. About 46,800 of the lernu.net users possess a basic, intermediate or advanced understanding of Esperanto. On March 25, 2016, when the Duolingo Esperanto course completed its beta-testing phase, that course had 350,000 people registered to learn Esperanto through the medium of English; in the subsequent two months, that number has increased to 400,000. Duolingo contributors are also preparing a Spanish-medium Esperanto course, expected to be released to beta testing in mid-2016.
The Unua Libro (First Book) was the first publication to describe the international language Esperanto (then called Lingvo Internacia, "international language"). It was first published in Russian on July 26, 1887 in Warsaw, by Dr. L.L. Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto. Over the next few years editions were published in Russian, Hebrew, Polish, French, German, and English. This booklet included the Lord's Prayer, some Bible verses, a letter, poetry, the sixteen rules of grammar and 900 roots of vocabulary. Zamenhof declared, "an international language, like a national one, is common property." Zamenhof signed the work as "Doktoro Esperanto" and the title Esperanto stuck as the name of the language which, in Esperanto, means "one who is hoping". Find out more...
Words (vortoj)
- kaj [rhymes with "high"] meaning: "and"
- al meaning: "to" or "toward"
- el meaning: "from" or "out of"
- knabo meaning: "boy"
- knabino meaning: "girl"
- lingvo meaning: "language"
- amo meaning: "love"
- amanto meaning: "lover"
- amkanto meaning: "love song"
The nominal (noun) suffix is "-o", so thus viro = man. We can make this into an adjective (describing word) by adding "-a": vira = manly or masculine.
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- ...that Neutral Moresnet, a European territory located between Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands from 1816 to 1919, had proposed the use of Esperanto as its official language?
- ...that Hungarians may elect among several languages when taking their university entrance exams and that Esperanto is the fourth language on the list?
- ...that Wikipedia in Esperanto (Vikipedio) is one of the few Wikipedias with over 150,000 articles?
- ...that the article "Esperanto" has been chosen as a Featured article in nine languages: Esperanto, French, Finnish, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, and Swedish?
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