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 ...

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 ...

EVERY one to-day has heard of Esperanto, the proposed universal language. But how many know more than the name ? A recent and very successful congress of Esperantists, at Boulogne, in France, has ...

In contrast, constructed languages, sometimes abbreviated to conlang are invented, by one or more individuals, and their genesis can typically be pinpointed to a specific date, period, or event. A ...

In Star Trek, hulking warriors speak Klingon. In Lord of the Rings, ancient forest dwellers talk in Elvish. And in Game of Thrones, nomadic tribes chatter in Dothraki. These made-up languages evoke ...

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 ...

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. ... Marking The Centennial Of Esperanto Creator's ...

I started learning Esperanto in high school after reading Harry Harrison's The Stainless Steel Rat books—in that series, Esperanto is spoken as the trade language of the galaxy. As I was doing three ...

In Star Trek, hulking warriors speak Klingon. In Lord of the Rings, ancient forest dwellers talk in Elvish. And in Game of Thrones, nomadic tribes chatter in Dothraki. These made-up languages evoke ...