In the mind of its creator, it was designed as a means to end all ethnic conflict among nations. History, as it turned out, would prove the idea quite naive and fantastical – Esperanto speakers were ...

He also spoke about the language "Esperanto," a 19th-century attempt at creating one language that all Europeans could speak. Read the full transcript below: "There had been attempts to create ...

From there, Esperanto’s journey took a darker turn as both Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia persecuted its speakers. Despite this, Esperanto persisted, surfacing in quirky corners of culture ...

It only has an estimated 1 million speakers around the world today. But Miyoshi remains undaunted. “The EU may not make Esperanto an official language despite my ads,” he said. “But I would ...

to shivering policemen. "Esperanto speakers are not related to fanatic groups like vegetarians," Fuller declared to his class. He claimed that the language is now, according to a conservative ...