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 ...

The poster promised the moon. Stuck outside Mumbai University’s linguistics department, it said: “Keen to travel abroad without breaking the bank? Eager to give yourself a head start learning French, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Komedia Kvizo had started. Perhaps this would be instructive. I had hoped to get to the heart of the matter straight away. I had hoped to re-examine the biggest question of our times—the European ...

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 ...

Esperanto *has* a culture. It is learnable by children, elder people and someone less educated. It is neutral. The words you learn stem from European languages; for dog, puppy, kennel, male dog, ...

At the age of 15 Heather Heldzingen first went to the Esperanto Club so she could run into Ivan, who she had a crush on. Now she's teaching Esperanto to her and Ivan's grandchildren. This July Mrs ...