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  Esperanto
Esperanto was an easier language to learn than Volapük, with a dramatically simpler grammar and a vocabulary that was more recognizable to speakers of European languages.
That Esperanto is used as widely as it is is a testament to the language's elegant design, including its straightforward grammar, its flexible and recognizable vocabulary and its phonetic spelling.
Esperanto is most noticeable for its ability to form a large variety of words from a small collection of roots.
www.langmaker.com /esperanto.htm   (2431 words)

  
  Esperanto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Esperanto is part of the state educational curriculum of several countries, but is not an official language of any.
Esperanto is particularly prevalent in the northern and eastern countries of Europe; in China, Korea, Japan, and Iran within Asia; in Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico in the Americas; and in Togo and Madagascar in Africa.
Esperanto is often used to access an international culture, including a large corpus of original as well as translated literature.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Esperanto   (3549 words)

  
 Esperanto grammar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Esperanto is a constructed auxiliary language based on the languages of Europe.
At first Esperanto may appear to stand out in having a specific suffix for nouns in their nominative singular inflection, but this is also the case for feminine and neuter nouns in Russian and Latin; as a rule, bare noun roots only occur when masculine in gender.
Esperanto extends this system to a pair of future participles, onta and ota, which are transparently related both to the future verbal tense -os and to the other participles (anta, ata, inta, ita, which reflect the vowels of the present and past verbal tenses -as, -is).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Esperanto_grammar   (4933 words)

  
 Esperanto grammar
Esperanto is an agglutinative language which has no grammatical genders and limited, regular verb conjugation.
Esperanto has a relatively regular grammar, phonetic alphabet (meaning that all words are pronounced as in written and vice versa), and very logical structure (the same words' ending for the same parts of speech, e.g.
All these features make Esperanto easier to learn than most of the world's languages, even for non-Europeans, though particular features may be more or less advantageous to native speakers of particular languages.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/es/Esperanto_grammar.html   (474 words)

  
 ESPERANTO FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Esperanto to język międzynarodowy, mający swe źródła w systemie stworzonym przez Ludwika Zamenhofa w 1887.
Esperanto, choć jest językiem sztucznym, ma wiele cech wspólnych z naturalnymi językami indoeuropejskimi.
Aczkolwiek wszystkie głoski obecne w esperanto występują także w języku polskim, należy zwrócić uwagę na złożenia takie jak ŝi, ĉi, si i zi (np.
www.witwib.com /Esperanto#Grammar   (1451 words)

  
 cars - Esperanto
Esperanto is not an official language of any country, although there were plans at the beginning of the 20th century to establish Neutral Moresnet as the world's first Esperanto state, and the shortlived artificial island micronation of Rose Island used Esperanto as its official language in 1968.
Esperanto is primarily agglutinative (Wells 1989 calculates an index of agglutinativity of 0.9999, higher than any non-constructed language), with all grammatical function suffixes appearing at the ends of words, and a mix of prefixes and suffixes with lexical meanings.
Esperanto is written using a modified version of the Latin alphabet, with six accented letters: ĉ, ĝ, ĥ, ĵ, ŝ (c, g, h, j, and s with circumflex), and ŭ; (u with breve).
www.carluvers.com /cars/Esperanto_language   (3510 words)

  
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Esperanto is a strictly agglutinative language, meaning that all the pieces are clearly laid out, you simply have to put them together.
Esperanto words can be joined to one another or with affixes so that from a small number of parts, you can create a large number of words.
Almost everyone that speaks the Esperanto language did so by their own free will, without any compulsion or even incentive to do so, and probably in spite of resistance from people who told them that they are wasting their time.
www.esperanto-chicago.org /esprimoj/Overview.htm   (675 words)

  
 Esperanto Lesson 1 - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
Esperanto was invented in the 1880s by L.
Esperanto belongs to the Esperantists: Developers of constructed languages are usually extremely possessive of their brain-children and reject any attempt by others to contribute or have a significant role in the development of the language.
This gave Esperanto a stability of structure and grammar similar to that which natural languages possess by virtue of their great body of literature and speakers.
en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Esperanto_Lesson_1   (1929 words)

  
 Esperanto (Esperantlingva)
Esperanto is the most widely spoken constructed (or artificial) international language.
Esperanto has been in continuous use since its creation, even though it is not recognized as an official language by any country.
Since Esperanto is spoken as a second language, its pronunciation varies depending on the first language of its speakers.
www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/march2006/esperanto.html   (711 words)

  
 Getting Started With Esperanto: Kiel Komenci Esperanton
Note that part of the magic is the esperanto style, in the style sheet mindprod.css which enourages the use of an esperanto font.
Esperanto is difficult for Korean and Chinese speakers with its pedantic grammar and fanatical tenses.
The grammar is a little on the prissy side, requiring both -n (nominative/accusative) and -j (singular/plural) agreement in both nouns and adjectives.
www.mindprod.com /esperanto/esperanto.html   (5619 words)

  
 Getting Started With Esperanto: Kiel Komenci Esperanton
Note that part of the magic is the esperanto style, in the style sheet mindprod.css which enourages the use of an esperanto font.
Esperanto is difficult for Korean and Chinese speakers with its pedantic grammar and fanatical tenses.
The grammar is a little on the prissy side, requiring both -n (nominative/accusative) and -j (singular/plural) agreement in both nouns and adjectives.
mindprod.com /esperanto/esperanto.html   (5651 words)

  
 A Complete Grammar of Esperanto
Through Esperanto, the labor in the acquirement of these languages may be reduced in the same proportion in which the pleasure and thoroughness of such acquirement are increased.
For this reason, the grammatical constructions of Esperanto are here explained as consistently as possible in accordance with the usage of national languages, especially those in the school curriculum, and precise names are assigned to them.
The diphthongs in Esperanto contain an i or u sound as the second element, but in order to avoid confusion with combinations of vowels not forming diphthongs (as in naiva, like English naïve, etc.), they are written with j and ŭ instead.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext05/esper10h.htm   (12175 words)

  
 The Sixteen Rules of Esperanto Grammar
The main difference between the use of the definite article in Esperanto and in English is that in Esperanto the article, with a singular noun, may be used to indicate an entire class.
The first of these is the most commonly used (and pedestrian) word order in Esperanto, probably because it is the standard word-order in the languages spoken natively by most Esperantists.
In Esperanto, for subordinate clauses beginning with ke ("that") and ĉu ("whether") the tense of the verb in the subordinate clause is independent of the main clause: it will always be the tense as seen by the subject of the main clause, whatever time frame that happens to be in:
donh.best.vwh.net /Esperanto/rules.html   (3431 words)

  
 Esperanto FAQ (Oftaj demandoj) Part 1/2
Esperanto's purpose is not to replace any other language, but to supplement them: Esperanto would be used as a neutral language when speaking with someone who doesn't know one's own language.
Esperanto's flexible word-order allows speakers from different language families to use the structures with which they are most familiar and still speak perfectly intelligible and grammatically correct Esperanto.
In fact, what makes Esperanto a truly "international" language (as distinct from a "world" language like English) is its extraordinary semantic flexibility which allows speakers from different language families to translate their own thought patterns directly into Esperanto and produce something which is perfectly intelligible and grammatically correct.
www.cs.uu.nl /wais/html/na-dir/esperanto/faq/part1.html   (4924 words)

  
 Learn Esperanto Language - Free Conversational Esperanto Lessons Online - Common Esperanto Words and Phrases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
When you learn Esperanto grammar or sentence structure, you will not naturally understand it when it's spoken to you.
The key is to immerse yourself in the language and use it as often as possible in order to build up your skills of speaking it and listening to it, understanding and comprehending it...
Esperanto Language Exchange Pen-Pals - Community of people from around the world interested in teaching you their language and sharing their culture with you.
www.phrasebase.com /learn/esperanto.php   (1866 words)

  
 Esperanto FAQ (Oftaj demandoj) Part 2/2
Esperanto has six letters with accents: c, g, h, j, and s can have a circumflex accent (^), and u can have a breve accent (similar to the lower half of a small circle).
Esperanto keyboard layouts are usually symbolized by a green star or by the Esperanto flag (a green flag with a star in the upper left corner).
Esperanto fonts with matching keyboard layouts can be downloaded from http://www.esperanto.be/FontE.hqx ftp://ftp.stack.nl/pub/esperanto/fonts.dir/ http://www.indigo.ie/egt/earra_bog/apple/ http://www.indigo.ie/egt/emono/em8859.html The following resources are useful when using Esperanto in Internet applications: - Plug-in tables for the popular mailing program Eudora which allow you to send and receive messages in MacEsperanto, Latin-3, and Code Page 853.
www.faqs.org /faqs/esperanto/faq/part2   (4376 words)

  
 Is Esperanto´s Vocabulary too Large?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
that Esperanto often abandons structural consistency in favour of using `international' root words, which are supposed to be easier to learn.
Esperanto has three different words to express the idea of "prison": malliberejo, karcero, prizono.
The main culprits are lexicographers, who are too inclined to invent words a priori (without a justifying context), and to find it necessary to create an equivalent for every nuance of their national language.
www.fasile.org /english/IsEsperantosVocabularytooLarge.htm   (1343 words)

  
 Overview of the Esperanto Language to Help You Learn Esperanto
One distinctive feature that makes it so easy to learn Esperanto vocabulary and Esperanto grammar is the consistent use of endings to form different parts of speech based on the same root.
Esperanto is a phonetic language: the spelling of a word shows clearly how it is to be pronounced.
Of all the artificially-created international languages, Esperanto is the most successful and the most widely used, perhaps because it is comparative easy to learn Esperanto.
www.transparent.com /languagepages/esperanto/overview.htm   (558 words)

  
 Esperanto - Unipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
There is experimental evidence that studying Esperanto before another foreign language improves one's ability to learn that language, so much so that it takes less time to learn both than it would to learn just the second.
Esperanto is the working language of several non-profit international organizations such as the Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda, but most others are specifically Esperanto organizations.
However, the phonology, grammar, vocabulary, and semantics are based on the western Indo-European languages.
www.unipedia.info /Esperanto.html   (3048 words)

  
 The Sixteen Rules of Esperanto Grammar
Though Esperanto’s grammar is actually more complex than can be expressed in just sixteen rules, these are still of some interest.
For a more thorough grammar of Esperanto, consult «La Plena Manlibro de Esperanta Gramatiko», which is available on the World-Wide Web.
Derivatives, however, are preferably formed from one basic root according to the rules of Esperanto grammar.
www.steve-and-pattie.com /esperantujo/gram-16.html   (1228 words)

  
 Ranto (JBR AntiZamenhofism)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Esperanto's pseudo-agglutinative system of affix-accretion (copied from Volapük) is only one possible approach to derivation - cf Arabic triliterals - but it is at least straightforward (see Appendix T).
Esperanto is notable among auxlang schemes for having possessed a well-stocked dictionary from the start, made up from words out of an assortment of European languages.
Esperanto nouns inflect both for number and for case; ie, more than is considered necessary in most European languages.
www.xibalba.demon.co.uk /jbr/ranto   (4192 words)

  
 Esperanto
This cassette is also suitable for intermediate speakers of Esperanto, who wish to become acquainted with the World of Esperanto.
Intended for those with a good knowledge of language structure who wish to cover the basic elements of Esperanto grammar in the shortest time possible, and covers approximately the same ground as the Elementary and Intermediate courses.
Entirely in Esperanto with typical Esperanto situations, written by a university lecturer in languages.
esperanto.org /uk/lerniloj.htm   (1284 words)

  
 Grammar
Esperanto’s grammar is much the same, overall, as most European languages, but greatly simplified.
This feature of Esperanto grammar is the single hardest one for speakers of English to get used to.
Esperanto has this distinction, not only for pronouns, but for nouns and some correlatives as well.
www.steve-and-pattie.com /esperantujo/grammar.html   (494 words)

  
 Is Esperanto four times easier to learn? | Esperanto-USA
Compared to most languages, Esperanto's grammar is extremely simplified ― stripped down to the bare necessities.
Esperanto gives you prefixes and suffixes that you can use to multiply your vocabulary and cut down on the number of words you have to learn.
And Esperanto doesn't shortchange smallness, either; in that direction the suffix -et- plays the same role as -eg- for bigness, but we will let you come up with some "small" words of your own as examples.
esperanto-usa.org /?q=node/77   (850 words)

  
 Esperanto por voja^gantoj (English) Foreign Languages
Esperanto can be achieved in a reasonably short period of time, thanks to its extremely regular and very easy to learn grammar.
Esperanto aims to promote and protect linguistic cultural diversity, and to provide a low-cost high-quality trans-Babel communication medium by acting as the dialect-free international auxiliary language.
Suggestions or corrections for Esperanto for Travellers should be directed (in Esperanto please) to Aaron via his home page.
www.travlang.com /languages/cgi-bin/langchoice.cgi?page=main&lang1=english&lang2=esperanto   (266 words)

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