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 ...

SEQUIM — A Whidbey Island woman fluent in Esperanto — an artificial language constructed to allow speakers of different native tongues to communicate fluidly — will discuss how it works during a free ...

Refreshments will be served and a discussion will follow. Many people erroneously believe Esperanto is the invention of ’60s peaceniks looking for a common mother tongue in the Age of Aquarius. In ...

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 ...

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.

Doktoro Esperanto was the pseudonym used by Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof when he constructed, in 1887, a manual for Russian readers on a utopian language he had been devising since adolescence. It was an ...

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 ...

(There was a time when speaking Esperanto was an essential part of being an anarchist.) When 97-year-old, Barcelona-born Eduardo Vivancos walks down the streets of Toronto where he has lived as an ...