The Esperanto Monthly
Title | The Esperanto Monthly PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 580 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Esperanto |
ISBN |
Bridge of Words
Title | Bridge of Words PDF eBook |
Author | Esther Schor |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 384 |
Release | 2016-10-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0805090797 |
"A history of Esperanto, the utopian "universal language" invented in 1887"--
Esperanto and Its Rivals
Title | Esperanto and Its Rivals PDF eBook |
Author | Roberto Garvia |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 2015-04-22 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0812291271 |
The problems of international communication and linguistic rights are recurring debates in the present-day age of globalization. But the debate truly began over a hundred years ago, when the increasingly interconnected world of the nineteenth century fostered a desire for the development of a global lingua franca. Many individuals and social movements competed to create an artificial language unencumbered by the political rivalries that accompanied English, German, and French. Organizations including the American Philosophical Society, the International Association of Academies, the International Peace Bureau, the Comintern, and the League of Nations intervened in the debate about the possibility of an artificial language, but of the numerous tongues created before World War II, only Esperanto survives today. Esperanto and Its Rivals sheds light on the factors that led almost all artificial languages to fail and helped English to prevail as the global tongue of the twenty-first century. Exploring the social and political contexts of the three most prominent artificial languages—Volapük, Esperanto, and Ido—Roberto Garvía examines the roles played by social movement leaders and inventors, the strategies different organizations used to lobby for each language, and other early decisions that shaped how those languages spread and evolved. Through the rise and fall of these artificial languages, Esperanto and Its Rivals reveals the intellectual dilemmas and political anxieties that troubled the globalizing world at the turn of the twentieth century.
Teach Yourself Esperanto
Title | Teach Yourself Esperanto PDF eBook |
Author | John Cresswell |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1957 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Esperanto
Title | Esperanto PDF eBook |
Author | Pierre Janton |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2016-03-22 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1438407807 |
Esperanto, spoken by thousands of people across the world, is the most successful international language project. In this book, the French linguist and literary critic Pierre Janton describes the history of Esperanto since its invention in nineteenth-century Eastern Europe and offers a comprehensive linguistic description of the language. This book is the best general introduction to Esperanto and its role in the modern world. Rooted in the populism and internationalism of the late nineteenth century, Esperanto owes its origins in part to western European educational currents and in part to the cultural history of eastern European Jewry. It is a fascinating historical and sociological phenomenon as well as a remarkable linguistic system. The book contains a survey of today's movement for the promotion of Esperanto as an international language, and a description of the extensive literature in Esperanto, both original and translated. Janton also provides a survey of the other global language projects, explaining why Esperanto has prevailed.
American Esperanto Magazine
Title | American Esperanto Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 340 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | Esperanto |
ISBN |
Esperanto
Title | Esperanto PDF eBook |
Author | David Richardson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 398 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
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