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 ...

It’s a late afternoon on Tuesday at the Bluewall Cafe and Steven Brewer, the founding father of the Amherst Esperanto Club, is telling a story about a man he knows through Esperanto, Dave Coffin from ...

Esperanto, a universal language created by L. L. Zamenhof, has experienced fluctuating fortunes in Nepal since its introduction in 1957. Meaning “one who hopes” in English, Esperanto is the most ...

I started learning Esperanto in high school after reading Harry Harrison's The Stainless Steel Rat books—in that series, Esperanto is spoken as the trade language of the galaxy. As I was doing three ...