Esperanto

Es·pe·ran·to

E0214200 (ĕs′pə-răn′tō, -rän′-)n. An artificial international language with a vocabulary based on word roots common to many European languages and a regularized system of inflection.

[After Dr. Esperanto, "one who hopes," pseudonym of Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof (1859-1917), Polish philologist.]

Es′pe·ran′tist adj. & n.

Esperanto

(ˌɛspəˈræntəʊ) n (Languages) an international artificial language based on words common to the chief European languages, invented in 1887[C19: literally: the one who hopes, pseudonym of Dr. L. L. Zamenhof, who invented it] ˌEspeˈrantist n, adj

Es•pe•ran•to

(ˌɛs pəˈrɑn toʊ, -ˈræn-)

n. an artificial language invented in 1887 for international use, based on word roots common to the major European languages. [1890–95; orig. Esperanto pseudonym of the inventor, Latin. Latin. Zamenhof (1859–1917), Polish physician; literally, the hoping one] Es`pe•ran′tism, n. Es`pe•ran′tist, n.

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Noun

Esperanto - an artificial language based as far as possible on words common to all the European languagesartificial language - a language that is deliberately created for a specific purpose

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Esperanto

(ĕspərän`tō), an artificial language introduced in 1887 and intended by its inventor, Dr. Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof (1859–1917), a Polish oculist and linguist, to ease communication between speakers of different languages. In the 20th cent. it was taught in schools and universities throughout the world, but it has not received wide acceptance as an international language. Its grammar and lexicon are relatively unfamiliar to users who do not know other Indo-European languages; its syntax, spelling, and pronunciation are influenced especially by Slavonic. See international languageinternational language,
sometimes called universal language, a language intended to be used by people of different linguistic backgrounds to facilitate communication among them and to reduce the misunderstandings and antagonisms caused by language differences.
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Bibliography

See E. Schor, Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language (2016).

Esperanto

the most widely used of the artificial languages; an auxiliary means of international communication.

Esperanto was created in 1887 by L. Zamenhof, a physician who lived in Warsaw; the language derives its name from his pseudonym, Dr. Esperanto (literally, “one who hopes”). Esperanto makes use of roots from the European languages; when combined with any of several dozen affixes, the roots become designations for a wide variety of concepts. International Esperanto congresses, under the auspices of the Universala Esperanto-Asocio (Universal Esperanto Association), have been held annually since 1905; the organization Mondpaca Esperantista Movado (Movement of Esperantists for World Peace) also exists.

Literary works, translations, collections of original scholarly works, and several dozen journals are published in Esperanto. The many translations into Esperanto include the Bible, Vergil’s Aeneid, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Goethe’s Faust, A. S. Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, and V. V. Mayakovsky’s At the Top of My Voice.

REFERENCES

Sergeev, I. V. Osnovy esperanto. Moscow, 1961.
Problemy interlingvistiki. Moscow, 1976.
Bokarev, E. A. Esperanto russkii slovar’. Moscow, 1974.
Manders, W. Interlingvistiko kaj esperantologio. Purmerend, 1950.
Zamenhof, L. L. Fundamenta kreslomatio de la lingvo Esperanto, 17th ed. Rickmansworth, 1954.
Esperanto anlologio: Poemoj 1887–1957. La Laguna, 1958.
Waringhier, G. Plena ilustrita vortaro de Esperanto. Paris, 1970.

V. P. GRIGOREV

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noun an artificial language based as far as possible on words common to all the European languages

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