Word: zamenhof
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Esperanto was born, said M. Privat, in a little Prussian village where a boy named Zamenhof lived about the middle of the last century. This boy saw the need of a universal language because of strife and misunderstanding that arose between people of his native village who spoke four different languages. When he grew up, he formulated an artificial language, Esperanto, but met with little success until 21 years ago. Since then, interest in the new language has grown steadily, and today there are over 700 Esperanto societies and more than 400 magazines spreading the language over the world...
Esperanto, the best known of the artificial languages, was invented by Dr. L. L. Zamenhof, a Russian. The Esperanto grammar can be learned in less than half an hour, and the vocabulary in a month or six weeks. Anyone reading Esperanto at sight can understand a large proportion of it. The key to the language can be mailed with a letter so that the recipient of the letter may be sure of getting its entire meaning. Over half a million people are now able to speak and write Esperanto. At a recent Congress of "Esperantists," people from 20 different nations...