Pardonu min…Ĉu vi parolas Esperanton?” is Esperanto for “Excuse me, do you speak Esperanto?” While most people will not understand this phrase, the language was created to be a universal tongue. In ...

“Saluton!” The greeting rings throughout the Sulzer Regional Library auditorium in Ravenswood as members of the Esperanto Society of Chicago gather for their monthly meeting. They have come to study ...

At two and a half years old, Gabriel Nacu can already boast an unusual skill. He’s beginning to string together full sentences in Esperanto, the language invented in the nineteenth century by the ...

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 ...

On a recent Friday evening, the Esperanto Society of New York convened in a rowhouse on Manhattan’s East 35th Street. The upper floors of the building seemed to house a bilingual preschool, going by ...

Retired lawyer and Esperanto speaker Elzbieta Karczewska has travlled the world to meet other speakers of the synthetic language Retired lawyer and Esperanto speaker Elzbieta Karczewska has travlled ...

More than 100 years after it was invented, Esperanto is spoken by relatively few people. But the internet has brought new life to this intriguing, invented language. In a small house in north London, ...

Instead of a hello, the head of the Esperanto association in the Polish city of Bialystok opts for "saluton", a sign that the universal language created by Ludwik Zamenhof is alive and well a century ...