For a language meant to serve as a means of universal communication, Esperanto is frequently—and ironically—misunderstood. The most popular constructed language in the world was created in 1887 by L.L ...

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 ...

Created in the late 1800s as a way of reducing cultural tensions, Esperanto had the noblest of beginnings. And despite the difficulties of promoting a constructed language, it still has a large cohort ...

An Esperanto teacher instructs a class in a room with a painting of the language's creator on the wall. Janek Skarzynski/AFP via Getty Images The promise of peace through a shared language has not yet ...

Esperanto, the most successful constructed language in world history, was conceived and developed in Poland. But is there any Polish in Esperanto? The idea of Esperanto was first conceived by Ludwik ...

In the late 1800s, the city of Białystok—which was once Polish, then Prussian, then Russian, and is today again part of Poland—was a hub of diversity, with large numbers of Poles, Germans, Russians ...

Esther Schor, a professor of English, joined Princeton in 1986. Her scholarship focuses on two areas — British Romanticism, and religion and literature. She has also taught several courses in the ...

Over 1,000 speakers of Esperanto have been expected to gather this week at the 101st World Esperanto Congress in Slovakia to celebrate Tuesday as the 129th anniversary of the “birth” of the language, ...