Bridge of Words
Bridge of Words

Author: Esther Schor

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2016-10-04

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0805090797

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"A history of Esperanto, the utopian "universal language" invented in 1887"--

Lidia
Lidia

Author: Wendy Heller

Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780853981954

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Doctor Esperanto and the Language of Hope
Doctor Esperanto and the Language of Hope

Author: Mara Rockliff

Publisher: Candlewick

Published: 2019-03-12

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 0763689157

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Meet the boy who made up his own language — and brought hope to millions. Once there was a town of many languages but few kind words. Growing up Jewish in Bialystok, Poland, in the late 1800s, young Leyzer Zamenhof was surrounded by languages: Russian, Yiddish, German, Polish, and many others. But the multiethnic Bialystok was full of mistrust and suspicion, and Leyzer couldn’t help but wonder: If everyone could understand each other, wouldn’t they be able to live in peace? So Zamenhof set out to create a new language, one that would be easy to learn and could connect people around the world. He published a book of his new language and signed it Dr. Esperanto — “one who hopes.” Mara Rockliff uses her unique knack for forgotten history to tell the story of a young man who saw possibility where others saw only barriers, while Polish illustrator Zosia Dzierzawska infuses every scene with warmth and energy, bringing the story of Esperanto to life.

In the Land of Invented Languages
In the Land of Invented Languages

Author: Arika Okrent

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2009-05-19

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0385529716

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Here is the captivating story of humankind’s enduring quest to build a better language—and overcome the curse of Babel. Just about everyone has heard of Esperanto, which was nothing less than one man’s attempt to bring about world peace by means of linguistic solidarity. And every Star Trek fan knows about Klingon. But few people have heard of Babm, Blissymbolics, Loglan (not to be confused with Lojban), and the nearly nine hundred other invented languages that represent the hard work, high hopes, and full-blown delusions of so many misguided souls over the centuries. With intelligence and humor, Arika Okrent has written a truly original and enlightening book for all word freaks, grammar geeks, and plain old language lovers.

The Esperanto Movement
The Esperanto Movement

Author: Peter G. Forster

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-02-06

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 3110824566

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

Zamenhof
Zamenhof

Author: Aleksander Korzhenkov

Publisher: Mondial

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 1595691677

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Released to the public for the first time in in 1887, Esperanto had its specific origins in the fertile brain of a single individual, Zamenhof, and in the particular circum-stan-ces into which he was born and came of age. It is the story of these origins that Aleksander Korzhenkov's biography sets out to tell. -- That biography was originally published in Esperanto; the present version, in Ian Richmond's excellent translation, is an abridged version of the original text, prepared for English readers by the author. -- Zamenhof was a child of his times - buffeted by the social upheavals of Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth century, eager to find solutions to social ills, but alive to new ways of thinking that accompanied this change. Seeking to solve the specific problems of his own day, he created a language equally well suited to addressing those of ours. (Humphrey Tonkin)