Sunday, June 25, 2006

Esperanto - Open source language

Esperanto is the most widely spoken constructed international language. The name derives from Doktoro Esperanto, the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof first published the Unua Libro to foster in 1887. Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy and flexible language as a universal second languagepeace and international understanding.

There are cultural commonalities between Esperanto speakers, which is a distinctive feature of a cultural community. Esperanto was created to foster universal understanding, solidarity and peace. A large proportion of the Esperanto movement continue to hold such goals, and most are at least sympathetic to them. Additionally, many Esperantists use the language as a window to the larger world, to meet people from other countries on an equal footing, and for travel. The Esperanto-community has a certain set of shared background knowledge.

"nacio malpli"


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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Some information about Esperanto and anationalism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anationalism
and some texts in: http://home.arcor.de/gmickle/skk/92en.html

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