Friday, July 26, is World Esperanto Day. Today on KUOW Presents, producer Roman Mars told us about the history of the invented language Esperanto. Esperanto's a language born out of the dream that if ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Esperanto teacher instructs a class in a room with a painting of the language's creator on the wall. Janek Skarzynski/AFP via ...

Most languages develop through centuries of use among groups of people. But some have a different origin: They are invented, from scratch, from one individual’s mind. Familiar examples include the ...

SEQUIM — A Whidbey Island woman fluent in Esperanto — an artificial language constructed to allow speakers of different native tongues to communicate fluidly — will discuss how it works during a free ...

The international language Esperanto is an auxiliary language that was conceived and developed for international communication. Of around 1,000 known plans for auxiliary languages, Esperanto alone has ...

In his Tucson, Ariz., backyard, 10-year-old Linken Kay throws a ball for his dog, Harley. The dog speaks only English. But Linken was raised speaking another language. "Li ŝatas salti en la naĝejo por ...

Languages are typically an essential means of identity, but also pose an unresolved dilemma: a paradox in which languages provide the opportunity to communicate, but only work within a given location ...

Marking The Centennial Of Esperanto Creator's Visit This weekend, advocates of the Esperanto language will meet in Washington, D.C., to mark the 1910 visit of the language's creator, L.L. Zamenhof. A ...

Anarchists have been at the forefront ofthe international workers’ Esperanto movement practicallyfrom day one. The Anarchist Federation, rightly, has always taken its international work seriously. Our ...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to join the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program for a hybrid lecture titled “Esperanto: The Rise, Fall and Rise of the International ...

If only American swimmer Ryan Lochte had spoken Esperanto. Chances are pretty good that if you’re under 40, you’ve never heard of Esperanto, a language created in the 1800s that was envisioned as a ...

Most languages develop through centuries of use among groups of people. But some have a different origin: They are invented, from scratch, from one individual’s mind. Familiar examples include the ...