Christmas: a good time to broach a topic of hope. We’re talking Esperanto. This language that spurred the hope it one day could hack the barriers between people, eliminating war and miscommunication.

BRIDGE OF WORDS: ESPERANTO AND THE DREAM OF A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE By Esther Schor Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, $32, 364 pages illustrated Princeton English professor Esther Schor is the author of a ...

Chances are, you’ve never heard of Volapük. Gloro and Novial probably don’t ring any bells either. If you know of any constructed language, there’s a good chance it’s Esperanto. At the very least, ...

Languages like English, French, Japanese, and Swahili are natural languages; they have evolved over time, within a community of speakers, with a shared culture, to facilitate communication. At an ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Within the human brain, a network of regions has evolved to process language. These regions are consistently activated whenever people listen to their native language or any language ...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to join the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program for a hybrid lecture titled “Esperanto: The Rise, Fall and Rise of the International ...

More than 100 years ago, a doctor created a language he hoped would help foster world peace and international understanding. A Warsaw-based ophthalmologist named Ludovic Lazarz Zamenhof crafted a ...

The deadly pogroms that swept through Eastern Europe following the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881 encouraged some Jews to become socialists, others Zionists, others emigrants. In 1887, ...