Word: esperanto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...movement to make Esperanto a world language for auxiliary international purposes received a rebuff from the Commission of International Coöperation, which had been invited to express its opinion on the question by the Assembly of the League of Nations...
...Even Esperanto can be tinged with politics in the strange propagandist twilight that has settled over Europe's chanceries. There really is ground for the belief that the Germans have been back of the agitation for Esperanto, in a desire to make an indirect attack on French and British influence through the French and English tongues. Also the Soviets recently attempted to compel the Russian Esperantists to use their language to further Bolshevist doctrines...
...Esperanto was invented by Dr. L. Zamenhof, a physician of Bielostok, Russia, where the clash of four races (Russians, Germans, Poles, Jews), suggested the necessity for a neutral tongue. Esperanto was first published in 1887, seven years after its predecessor, Volapük, which it has now supplanted...
Zamenhof's dictionary contained 2,642 Esperanto words. Volapük was more complicated, a single verb being capable of 505,440 different forms...
...auxiliary language for the use of statesmen, scientists and business men. This would necessitate its being taught as a living language; but, with so many teachers of Latin already in the schools of civilized countries, it should be much easier to accomplish this than to find competent teachers of Esperanto, or some other artificial language, and add it to the already overcrowded school curriculum...