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Esperanto Language
Season 2 · Episode 117

Esperanto Language

The story of the constructed language created by Ludovic Zamenhof in the 1800s

History Dispatches

March 24, 202617m 35s

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Show Notes

The root of most conflict is misunderstanding and miscommunication. But what if there was a universal language that everyone could speak? Would such a language help avoid communication problems. To a dress this, in 1887, Ludovic Zamenhof created a brand new language: Esperanto. This was a constructed language to try and facilitate communication across ethnic and geographic lines. Today it is spoken by tens of thousands of people. This is the history of Esperanto.


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Sources


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC61387/

https://zamenhof.info/en/biografio

Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Esperanto_bandera.jpg


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