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  World Esperanto Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The World Esperanto Association (in Esperanto UEA: Universala Esperanto-Asocio) is the largest international organization of Esperanto speakers, with members in 119 countries (as of 2000) and in official relations with the United Nations and UNESCO.
The annual World Congress of Esperanto (Universala Kongreso de Esperanto), which attracts 1500-3000 people to a different city each year, is held under the direction of UEA.
TEJO, the World Esperanto Youth Organization, is the youth section of the UEA.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_Esperanto_Association   (380 words)

  
 World Congress of Esperanto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The World Congress of Esperanto (in Esperanto: Universala Kongreso de Esperanto) has the longest tradition among international Esperanto conventions, with an almost unbroken run of nearly a hundred years.
The Congresses have been held since 1905 every year, except during World Wars I and II.
These congresses take place every year and gather on average about 2000 participants (since World War II it has varied from 800 to 6000 depending on the venue).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_Congress_of_Esperanto   (171 words)

  
 Annual World Congress of Esperanto
The Permanent Congress Secretary is also responsible for development and research on the congress market, study of the venues, and the follow-up within the convention industry, relations with professional associations, fairs and exhibitions etc. He also has an advisory role in selection of the new venues.
The Universal Congress of Esperanto is probably the congress with the longest tradition among the international conventions, with an unbroken continuity of almost hundred years.
Attending the Congress is meant to be a pleasure, as an integral part of the general activity for Esperanto during the year, and as a personal pursuit.
www.esperanto.ie /english/worldcongress.htm   (2124 words)

  
 Esperanto Association of Britain - EAB News
World Esperanto Congress in a series which started in 1905 [see the centenary report] and has taken place each year, interrupted only by the two world wars.
Esperanto, as we know, is a constructed planned language, which aims to ease communication between people with different languages everywhere in the world.
For a modern world, which is faced with more important global challenges and disagreements, it is extraordinarily important that different people, religions and cultures should preserve their identities and the same time discover means of communicating with each other.
www.esperanto-gb.org /eab/eab_news/2005-07-23_universala_kongreso.htm   (1607 words)

  
 Esperanto culture - Gurupedia
Esperanto culture has a special word, krokodili ("to crocodile", coming from the fact that crocodiles have a small brain and a big mouth), to describe what is considered the inappropriate use of national languages at Esperanto meetings.
It speaks of the achievement of world peace, "sacred harmony" and "eternal blessing" on the basis of a neutral language.
Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1905, a declaration was made which defined an "Esperantist" merely as one who knows and uses the language "regardless of what kind of aims he uses it for", and which also specifically declared any ideal beyond the spread of the language itself to be a private matter for the individual speaker.
www.gurupedia.com /e/es/esperanto_culture.htm   (433 words)

  
 Why Esperanto Suppresses Language Diversity
During the International Youth Congress of Esperanto in Strasbourg in 2001, a language festival was part of the programme and all participants of the congress were encouraged to attend.
Until Esperanto congresses focus entirely on the culture of the host country and the cultures represented by participants, requiring all present to familiarise themselves with these and reserving Esperanto as a (admittedly occasionally useful) last resort, Esperanto congresses will continue to suppress language diversity.
Esperanto is not a harmless hobby enjoyed by afficionados in their personal time, but rather it is deeply involved with public institutions.
www.christopherculver.com /en/writings/esperanto.php   (2167 words)

  
 Esperanto culture - Unipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The language Esperanto is often used to access an international culture.
Many Esperanto speakers use the language for free travel throughout the world using the Pasporta Servo.
Esperanto is a well-established and significant linguistic and cultural phenomenon involving well over a million inhabitants of the globe.
www.unipedia.info /Esperanto_community.html   (673 words)

  
 Diskutejo kontrolo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
VIAURBANO delagate at World Esperanto Congress ANTAUNOMO FAMILIONOMO represents lille at the 88th World Esperanto Congress in Goteborg (Sweden).
This year Esperanto speakers from many countries met in Goteborg for the 88th World Esperanto Congress, under the sponsorship of the Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson.
The World Esperanto Congress is not the only such meeting; there are many other arrangements for Esperanto speakers throughout the year.
lingvo.org /grupoj/kontrolo/legu/76   (612 words)

  
 Esperanto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Esperanto is written with a modified version of the Latin alphabet, including six letters with diacritics: ĉ, ĝ, ĥ, ĵ, ŝ and ŭ (that is, c, g, h, j, s circumflex, and u breve).
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.
An estimate of the number of Esperanto speakers was made by Sidney S. Culbert, a retired psychology professor of the University of Washington and a longtime Esperantist, who tracked down and tested all Esperanto speakers in sample areas of dozens of countries over a period of twenty years.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/E/Esperanto.htm   (2829 words)

  
 New Zealand Esperanto Association
Mr Chen was elected at the 6th Chinese Esperanto Congress, held in Quanzhou, in Fujian province, in September 2005.
The participants firmly believe that the history of a century of World Esperanto Congresses, as a successful example of intercultural communication, will be continued, and therefore call on other people of good will to learn Esperanto and experience a similar occasion to that which has just taken place in Vilnius.
2004-01-04: The annual congress of the the New Zealand Esperanto Association for 2004 is a joint congress with the Australian Esperanto Association.
www.esperanto.org.nz   (1548 words)

  
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It was said that during the 3rd World Esperanto Congress at Cambridge [England] in 1907 he gave the whole congress “good-humoured gaiety”.
Wynne (1847 – 1912) was a pioneer of Esperanto in Ireland and a fervent propagandist.
George Jameson Johnston was a pioneer of the movement in Ireland, and was a UEA Delegate from 1909 to 1914.
www.esperanto.ie /english/historyEAI/historyEAI(2).htm   (787 words)

  
 BEL
It was then during the 57th Esperanto World Congress that the nine participating Bahá'ís consulted together and decided to write to the Universal House of Justice to seek its approval for the founding of a Bahá'í Esperanto organisation.
In this connection, the Esperanto World Congress in Beijing in 1986, in which about a dozen BEL members from nearly as many different countries took part, and in the following the Centenary Congress in Warsaw in 1987, which was attended by an unprecedented number of Bahá'ís (about 50 from 20 different countries).
Rather the peoples and nations of the world should retain their own local or national languages, while at the same time being encouraged to learn one universal language, a language that should be taught as an obligatory subject in all the schools of the world.
www.bahai.de /bahaaeligo/angla/englisch.htm   (3149 words)

  
 Esperanto? What's that?
Esperanto has a simple, regular and extremely flexible structure, and a vocabulary of international character.
The meetings such as the World Congress of Esperanto, the International Youth Congress and other international youth meetings take place in different countries every year and offer a fantastic experience for the thousands of people who participate.
Esperanto has a vast literature, both translated and original on countless subjects, and there are also many periodicals and regular radio broadcasts in Esperanto.
www.esperanto.net /info/baza_en.html   (342 words)

  
 HS Essay about Esperanto 2
It is the World Esperanto Congress (UK), which I attended this past summer.
I know that the world is my home, its people are my family, and my life is one big family reunion complete with aunts pinching my cheeks and cousins I can't remember asking me how I've been.
To me, Esperanto is the hope to meet all those long lost cousins, aunts, and uncles and to find out what they have been doing for all these years.
www.angelfire.com /al2/esperanto/lizese2a.html   (556 words)

  
 Esperanto en 1996   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Esperanto movement includes great diversity in the goals and opinions of its supporters, but in 1996 there was a very successful attempt to summarise its principles in a concise document.
Besides the very successful World Congress in Prague one can mention other Esperanto gatherings among the hundreds which occured throughout the year - from ski-weeks in Switzerland to study- sessions in Slovakia - especially the Children's Congress, which took place at the same time as the World Congress and involved 59 Esperanto-speaking children.
During the Esperanto Cultural Festival in Copenhagen there were concerts by musicians from Sweden, France, Zaire and Brazil; and three new CDs of Esperanto music were on sale, including the second volume of the compilation Vinilkosmo, which includes Esperanto songs of 20 different groups, mostly in rock style.
www.rano.org /1996en.html   (896 words)

  
 Esperanto Access
The topic of the 91st World Esperanto Congress in Florence, Italy, 2006, is "Languages, Cultures and Education for Sustainable Development".
The topic was decided on by the Universal Esperanto Association (UEA) Board of Directors, who invited the UEA Committee Member from Chile, José Antonio Vergara, to be in charge of its treatment in the World Congress.
For the Esperanto movement, the most interesting of the three documents is the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, in which UNESCO again points out linguistic diversity as a basic element of cultural diversity.
donh.best.vwh.net /esperanto.php   (2490 words)

  
 Update on Esperanto
Esperanto speakers in the news recently include 1994 Nobel laureate in economics Reinhard Selten, 1996 World Chess Champion Zsuzsa Polgar, and Tivadar Soros, father of financier George Soros.
Esperanto morphemes are invariant and almost indefinitely recombinable into different words, so the language also has much in common with isolating languages like Chinese, while its internal word structure has affinity with agglutinative languages like Turkish, Swahili and Japanese.
The biggest is the World Congress of Esperanto, held in Zagreb (2001), Fortaleza, Brazil (2002), Gothenburg, Sweden (2003), Beijing (2004), and Vilnius, Lithuania (2005).
www.uea.org /info/angle/an_ghisdatigo.html   (1795 words)

  
 Esperanto? What's that?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In practical use for more than a hundred years, Esperanto has proved to be a genuinely living language, capable of expressing all facets of human thought.
Esperanto doesn't belong to any specific country or people.
Because Esperanto is so easy, you can also learn it on your own or through a free postal course.
wwwtios.cs.utwente.nl /esperanto/baza_informilo/en.html   (346 words)

  
 About Esperanto
In a separate initiative, over 6000 Esperanto speakers have signed the Prague Manifesto, a modern restatement of the values and goals underlying the Esperanto movement, which are said to include linguistic democracy and the preservation of linguistic diversity, among others...
The Universal Esperanto Association, whose membership is drawn from the most active parts of the Esperanto community, has national affiliates in 55 countries and individual members in over twice that number.
The increasing use of Esperanto outside Europe is reflected in the growth of continental congresses: 1996 witnessed the first Asian Congress (in Shanghai), the third American Congress (in San José, Costa Rica), and the fourth African Congress (in Moshi, Tanzania).
esperantic.org /ced/espe.htm   (1906 words)

  
 The Esperanto Language
Esperanto is probably the most successful of the artificial international languages.
The number of Esperanto speakers is estimated at more than 2 million.
There is an annual World Esperanto Congress, and over 100 periodicals are published in the language.
www.esperanto.com /esper1.html   (256 words)

  
 Talkin' About Talk
I have friends who have heard of Esperanto, but have never heard it spoken, say to me 'Isn't it mostly Spanish?' Well, no. The name Esperanto has a Spanish flavor, but the vocabulary of the language is a mix of words from Eastern and Central Europe.
Esperanto speakers are dispersed so it's hard to get an exact count on them, but most estimates put the number at more than a million speakers world-wide.
The first World Congress was held in 1905 and it has been held each year since then, except for the years of World Wars I and II.
www.cofc.edu /linguist/archives/2005/02/whatever_happen.html   (1038 words)

  
 Esperanto. International Language. Why I like Esperanto.
Translations into Esperanto, are generally made by native speakers of the language to be translated, given the original flavor to the translation.
Instead, we can learn Esperanto in much less time, and begin talking to other people that also took some of their time to learn Esperanto.
Many people would say that Esperanto was created by an Ophthalmologist (Doctor Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof), but Esperanto was born in the mind of a five year young boy.
www.angelfire.com /al2/esperanto   (791 words)

  
 The World of Stuff » Language
Because Esperanto is phonetic, the spelling of a word usually has to change when it is borrowed from another language; however, making new words from existing words is encouraged.
If Esperanto were not a solution for the language problem, then thousands of people from dozens of countries would not be meeting right now in Lithuania, chatting with as much ease as (or more ease than) their respective native languages.
Yesterday the 90th Universala Kongreso de Esperanto (usually translated as World Congress of Esperanto) began in Vilnius, Lithuania.
www.theworldofstuff.com /archives/category/stuff/language/page/2   (4005 words)

  
 Candyland Game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Candyland Game - July 29 to August 5 - World Co If, as seems likely, you are a new visitor to the page, you should not make the mistake of assuming that you have followed the whole discussion on the matter just by reading that particular heading.
July 29 to August 5 - World Congress of Esperanto in Florence, Italy.
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game.funhosts.com /candyland-game.html   (870 words)

  
 ELNA Congress 2005 - Invited Guests   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In Spain, he was coordinator for the conference theme of the Esperanto World Congress, "Educating for the 21st Century." He gave the keynote address and contributed to related panel and workshop activities.
Fred Meyer is a North Texas Esperantist and physicist with a particular interest in the use of Esperanto in the scientific fields.
Besides the usual Esperanto activities, he is particularly interested in Esperanto comics, film subtitling, Vikipedio, etc. He recently won a prize in the LIRO-2004 contest for his translation of the story "The Devil in the Belfry" by Edgar Allan Poe.
kongreso.hewgill.com /gastoj-en.html   (1340 words)

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