Word: zamenhof
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the roots of many languages was Esperanto? evolved by a Polish physician, Lazaro Ludovico Zamenhof, whose pensive, bearded face done in oils looked down upon the convening Esperantists last week. Esperanto sounds like an Italian or Spanish patois...
...radikoj de multaj lingvoj Eperanto evoluigis per la laboro de pola kuracisto Doktoro Lazaro Ludovico Zamenhof kied pensema barbita vizago en olenpentrita portreto malsupren rigardis la kunvenin-tajn Esperantistojn la pasintan semajnon. Esperanto sonas kiel ia itala au hispana dialekto...
...Artificial language based on 2,642 roots borrowed from the Romance, Germanic & Slavonic dictionaries. Its author: Dr. L. Zamenhof...
...Zamenhof's original idea was to resuscitate a dead language. Then he tried to construct a new tongue on an a priori basis. Finally he fell back on the roots of extant languages, selecting from European sources chiefly. His choice was guided by a desire for internationality, but his results were not satisfactorily impartial...
...Zamenhof's dictionary contained 2,642 Esperanto words. Volapük was more complicated, a single verb being capable of 505,440 different forms...