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LinguisticsEnglish · 1 year ago

Esperanto: The artificial language that aimed to unite humanity

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Esperanto: The artificial language that aimed to unite humanity

fossilesqueM to

LinguisticsEnglish · 1 year ago

A language for the world has been the dream of many thinkers for millennia. Esperanto was created to fill that role. Here is its story.

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Esperanto does have a lot of influence in East Asia. It partly inspired a generation of socialists and the creation of PinYin

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