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 ...
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 ...
More than 100 years ago, the blind Ukrainian writer Vasily Eroshenko was introduced to the language Esperanto. L.L. Zamenhof, the Polish ophthalmologist who constructed the language in the late 19th ...