For a language meant to serve as a means of universal communication, Esperanto is frequently—and ironically—misunderstood. The most popular constructed language in the world was created in 1887 by L.L ...

Created in the late 1800s as a way of reducing cultural tensions, Esperanto had the noblest of beginnings. And despite the difficulties of promoting a constructed language, it still has a large cohort ...

An Esperanto teacher instructs a class in a room with a painting of the language's creator on the wall. Janek Skarzynski/AFP via Getty Images The promise of peace through a shared language has not yet ...

Esther Schor, a professor of English, joined Princeton in 1986. Her scholarship focuses on two areas — British Romanticism, and religion and literature. She has also taught several courses in the ...

EVERY one to-day has heard of Esperanto, the proposed universal language. But how many know more than the name ? A recent and very successful congress of Esperantists, at Boulogne, in France, has ...

In the late 1800s, the city of Białystok—which was once Polish, then Prussian, then Russian, and is today again part of Poland—was a hub of diversity, with large numbers of Poles, Germans, Russians ...

The poster promised the moon. Stuck outside Mumbai University’s linguistics department, it said: “Keen to travel abroad without breaking the bank? Eager to give yourself a head start learning French, ...

Esperanto, the most successful constructed language in world history, was conceived and developed in Poland. But is there any Polish in Esperanto? The idea of Esperanto was first conceived by Ludwik ...

The Komedia Kvizo had started. Perhaps this would be instructive. I had hoped to get to the heart of the matter straight away. I had hoped to re-examine the biggest question of our times—the European ...