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An Esperantist is a person who participates in the diffusion of Esperanto. Etymologically, an Esperantist is someone who hopes. A person who speaks Esperanto is an Esperantist because speaking the language encourages its diffusion. However, Esperantists do not necessarily speak Esperanto or speak it well, as there are other ways to support the language besides speaking it. The term may also imply somebody disposed towards Esperanto without strictly implying a partisan of Esperanto. Image File history File links Flag_of_Esperanto. ... Look up Esperanto in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Esperanto is a constructed auxiliary language based on the languages of Europe. ... The creator of Esperanto, L. L. Zamenhof, did not specify phonemic-phonetic correspondences for his language. ... Esperanto is written in a Latin alphabet of twenty-eight letters, upper and lower case. ... The word base of Esperanto was originally defined by Lingvo internacia, published by Zamenhof in 1887. ... The constructed international auxiliary language Esperanto was developed in the 1870s and 80s by L. L. Zamenhof, and first published in 1887. ... L. L. Zamenhof Dr. Ludovic Lazarus (Ludwik Lejzer, Ludwik Łazarz) Zamenhof (December 15, 1859 – April 14, 1917) was an eye doctor, philologist, and the initiator of Esperanto, the most widely spoken and successful constructed language in the world. ... Proto-Esperanto (or pra-Esperanto in the language itself) is the modern term for any of the stages in the evolution of L. L. Zamenhofs language project, prior to the publication of his Unua Libro in 1887. ... Unua Libro por Rusoj (first edition, 1887, in Russian) Unua Libro por Angloj (first edition in English, 1888) The Unua Libro (First Book) was the first publication to describe the international language, Esperanto (then called Lingvo Internacia, inter-national language). It was first published in Russian on July 26, 1887... The Declaration of Boulogne (Bulonja Deklaracio) was a document written by L. L. Zamenhof and endorsed by the attendees of the first world congress of Esperanto in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France in 1905. ... The Fundamento de Esperanto (Foundation of Esperanto) is a book by L. L. Zamenhof, published in the spring of 1905. ... The Prague Manifesto (or Manifesto de Prago) is a set of seven widely-shared principles of the Esperanto movement. ... The language Esperanto is often used to access an international culture. ... Esperantujo, also Esperantio, is a term used by speakers of the planned international language Esperanto to refer to the sphere of activity taking place in that language. ... // Feature films There are two feature films known to have been shot exclusively in the constructed language Esperanto. ... Internacia Televido is an Internet-based Esperanto-language television station, launched on the 5th of November, 2005. ... La Espero (The Hope) is a poem written by L. L. Zamenhof (1859-1917), the initiator of the Esperanto language. ... The following Esperanto libraries and collections of works in the Esperanto language are worthy of note: The Montagu Butler Library of Esperanto materials, maintained by the British Esperanto Association, whose collection of 30,000 items is often quoted. ... Since Esperanto is the largest planned language, there are over 25,000 books in Esperanto and the largest Esperanto book service at the World Esperanto Association sells over 4,000 books. ... Music in a variety of styles is written, recorded, and performed in Esperanto, a planned language used for international communication. ... Native Esperanto speakers (in Esperanto denaskuloj) come to be in families in which Esperanto (and usually other languages) is spoken. ... The constructed language Esperanto has been used in a number of films and novels. ... December 15 (Zamenhof Day, Zamenhofa Festo) is the birthday of L. L. Zamenhof, the initiator of Esperanto. ... Amikeca Reto (Friendship Network) is a directory of people around the world who do not necessarily want to host other Esperanto speakers, but want to work together and exchange ideas with others around the world. ... The Akademio de Esperanto is, according to its website, an independent language institute whose task is to conserve and protect the fundamental principles of the language Esperanto and control its evolution. ... Kurso de Esperanto is a free language course software with 12 units for the constructed language Esperanto. ... The Encyclopedia of Esperanto is an encyclopedia about the Esperanto Movement. ... The Pasporta Servo (Passport Service) is a publication in Esperanto. ... The Breton village of Plouézec has hosted an International Meeting annually since 1997. ... TEJO is the Tutmonda Esperantista Junulara Organizo, or World Esperanto Youth Organization. ... 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. In addition to individual members, 95 national Esperanto organizations are affiliated to UEA. Its... Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda (SAT; in English, World Anational Association) was founded in 1921 by Eugène LANTI. SAT is a world-wide worker movement active in socialist, peace, trade union, feminist and environmental issues. ... 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 International Youth Congress of Esperanto or Internacia Junulara Kongreso is the biggest annual meeting of young esperantists in the world and participants usually number around 300 but have been know to have more than 1000 esperanto-speakers from all over the world coming for the entire week. ... Junularo Esperantista Brita British Esperantist Youth (JEB) is the organisation for young esperantists in Great Britain. ... SATEB (Workers’ Esperanto Movement) is the British affiliate of the non-nationalist world organisation SAT (Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda) which is a world-wide worker movement active in socialist, peace, trade union, feminist and environmental issues. ... Esperanto was conceived as a language of international communication, more precisely as a universal second language. ... Esperantido is the term used within the Esperanto and constructed language communities to describe a language project based on or inspired by Esperanto. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Reformed Esperanto was a reformed version of Esperanto created in 1894. ... Riism (Riismo in Esperanto) is a modification of Esperanto to simplify it, to make it symmetric, and to incorporate non-sexist language and gender-neutral pronouns into it. ... This article attempts to highlight the main differences between Esperanto and Ido, two constructed languages that have a related past but have since parted ways. ... This article attempts to highlight the main differences between Esperanto and Interlingua, two planned languages which have taken radically different approaches to the problem of providing an International auxiliary language. ... An international auxiliary language (sometimes abbreviated as IAL or auxlang) is a language used (or to be used in the future) for communication between people from different nations who do not share a common native language. ... An artificial or constructed language (known colloquially as a conlang among aficionados), is a language whose phonology, grammar and vocabulary are specifically devised by an individual or small group, rather than having naturally evolved as part of a culture the way natural languages do. ... Ido (pronounced //), a constructed language, was created to become a universal second language for speakers of different linguistic backgrounds, easier to learn than any ethnic language. ... The constructed language Interlingua is an international auxiliary language (IAL) published in 1951 by the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). ... Novial [nov-, new + IAL, International Auxiliary Language] is a constructed language devised by Professor Otto Jespersen, a Danish linguist who had previously been involved in the Ido movement. ... Volapük is a constructed language, created in 1879-1880 by Johann Martin Schleyer, a Catholic priest in Baden, Germany. ... Signuno alphabet & numerals Signuno is signed Esperanto, derived from Gestuno roots and Esperanto morphology by an anonymous author. ... Anationalism is a term originating from the community of Esperanto speakers. ... Look up Esperanto in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Lists of famous Esperantists and quotations

Important Esperantists

• Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto.
• Théophile Cart, polyglot, Latinist, defender of the orthodoxy and stability of Esperanto.
• Fernand Doré, promoter of Esperanto in Champagne
• Georges Kersaudy, polyglot interpreter
• Georges Lagrange, French Esperantist writer
• Frederic Pujulà i Vallés, Pioneer of Esperanto in Catalonya

L. L. Zamenhof Dr. Ludovic Lazarus (Ludwik Lejzer, Ludwik Łazarz) Zamenhof (December 15, 1859 – April 14, 1917) was an eye doctor, philologist, and the initiator of Esperanto, the most widely spoken and successful constructed language in the world. ... Frederic Pujulà i Vallès (November 12, 1877 – February 14, 1962) was a journalist, dramatist, and a passionate Esperantist and contributor to the field of Esperanto literature. ...

Politicians

• Badowski, founder of the Communist Party of Poland, promoted Esperanto as part of Trotskyite movement
• Fidel Castro, president de Cuba

I consider myself a soldier of Esperanto. It is not important that you have small numbers, your idea will succeed. It will succeed because it is just. Each nation has its language, humanity should have its own, Esperanto. (Discourse given at the 75th Universal Congress at Havana in 1990)

• Edward VII, English king

I think that Esperanto is a great benefit to humanity and I wish it the most complete and rapid success.

• Gandhi, Indian activist

I am for a single calendar for the whole world, as I am for a single money for everyone and an auxiliary language like Esperanto for everybody.

• Jean Jaurès, French politician

He proposed to the International Socialist Congress at Stuttgart in 1907 the use of Esperanto for the information diffused by the Brussels Office of the organization.

• Léon Blum (1872 - 1950), French politician and writer

I wish that in all the villages and all the cities Esperanto was taught; it would be a cause for entente between peoples and the surest way to maintain universal peace.

• Franz Jonas, President of the Republic of Austria

He greeted the world press in Esperanto during his visit to Paril in April 1972.

• Willy Brandt (Herbert Karl Frahm, dit Willy) (1913 - 1992), Chancellor of West Germany from 1969 to 1974.

The successes of Esperanto have been recognized by UNESCO. If only the United Nations insisted effectively that we follow the work begun by Doctor Zamenhof.

• Robert Kennedy, American politician, brother of John F. Kennedy

It is quite probably that a neutral language would be the most useful means of communication between the diverse nations of the world. Esperanto has been one of the principal candidates for a long time.

• Élisée Reclus, anarcho-communist; Writer of Langue commune, which explains his position towards Esperanto
• Josip Broz Tito, head of state of Yougoslavia

Esperanto should be learned by the intellectuals, anyone with foreign contracts, and especially the workers.

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Writers

• Umberto Eco, Italian linguist
• Ba Jin, Chinese anarchist writer
• Georges Lagrange, French Esperantist writer
• J.R.R. Tolkien, writer and philologist

I have sympathy in particular for the assertions of Esperanto[...]but the principal reason to support it seems to me to rest in the fact that it has already acquired the first place and has received the largest welcome.

• Jules Verne

His book unpublished until 1993 contains 50 pages of Esperanto in the passage Voyages of Study. There he has one of his heroes say:

Esperanto is the surest, quickest vehicle to civilzation.

And he said to his entourage:

The key to an international language, lost in the Tower of Babel, may be found in the use of Esperanto.

• Leo Tolstoy

I have found Volapük very complicated, and, by contrast, Esperanto very simple. It is so simple that having received, six years ago, a grammar, a dictionary, and a few articles in the language, I was able after about two short hours, if not to write it, at leats to read the language fluently. () The sacrifices that each of us in our European world would make, in devoting some time to its study, is so small, and the results could be so large, that one couldn't refuse to try this. (1894)

Photo of Umberto Eco by Robert Birnbaum Umberto Eco (born January 5, 1932) is an Italian medievalist, philosopher and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose and his many essays. ... Ba Jin in 1938 Li Yaotang (Chinese: 李尧棠, Zi: 芾甘, Feigan) (November 25, 1904 – October 17, 2005) is considered to be one of the most important and widely read Chinese writers of the twentieth century. ... J. R. R. Tolkien in 1916. ... Jules Verne. ... The Confusion of Tongues by Gustave Doré (1865) According to the narrative in Genesis Chapter 11 of the Bible, the Tower of Babel was a tower built by a united humanity to reach the heavens. ... Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й; commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy) (September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910, N.S.; August 28, 1828 – November 7, 1910, O.S.) was a Russian novelist, philosopher, Christian anarchist, pacifist, educational reformer, vegetarian, moral thinker and an influential member of the Tolstoy family. ... Volapük is a constructed language, created in 1879-1880 by Johann Martin Schleyer, a Catholic priest in Baden, Germany. ...

Scientists

• Several Nobel Prize winners have approved, studied, or practiced Esperanto. See [:fr:Prix Nobel ayant approuvé, étudié ou pratiqué l'espéranto|French wikipedia reference]].
• Rudolf Diesel, German inventor of the Diesel motor

After many years I have become interested in Esperanto myself. This auxiliary international language meets the basic condition because many people accept it and it is becoming a natural link with the principal languages because of the genial simplicity and logic of its structure.

• Gustave Eiffel, French engineer

Esperanto...without having had the courage to go there myself, which my advanced age makes excusable, I never forget to recommend it to children, as one of the easiest and most useful thingst they can learn.

• Albert Einstein, German physicist and mathematician

Esperanto is the best solution to the idea of an internation language.
Note: This quote may be from another Einstein (Léopold), German journalist (1832-1890).
However, Einstein is known to have accepted the presidence of honor of an Esperantist Congress in Germany.[1]

• Bertalan Farkas, Hungarian cosmonaut
• Louis Lumière, French inventor of cinema

The use of Esperanto could have one of the happiest consequences in its effects on international relations and the establishment of peace.

Rudolf Diesel (1858–1913) Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (March 18, 1858 – September 30, 1913) was a German inventor, famous for the invention of the Diesel engine. ... Gustave Eiffel Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (December 15, 1832 – December 27, 1923; French pronunciation in IPA, in English usually pronounced in the German manner ) was a French engineer and architect and a specialist of metallic structures. ... Albert Einstein, photographed by Yousuf Karsh in 1948. ... Bertalan Farkas Bertalan Farkas (born August 2, 1949) was the first Hungarian cosmonaut and was the first Hungarian and the first Esperantist in space. ... The Lumière Brothers, Louis Jean (October 5, 1864–June 6, 1948) and Auguste Marie Louis Nicholas (October 19, 1862–April 10, 1954), were the creators of the cinematographic projector. ...

Others

• Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the scouting movement in 1908
• Pope John Paul II

He gave the benedition Urbi et Orbi in 51 languages, including Esperanto in 1994.

• Pelé, Brazilian footballer

Esperanto will be very useful in general for the sportsmen, for bringing people together and facilitating amicable and sportsmanlike relations.

Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB (February 22, 1857 - January 8, 1941) was a soldier, writer and founder of the world scouting movement. ... Pope John Paul II (Latin: ), born Karol Józef Wojtyła [1] (May 18, 1920 – April 2, 2005) reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church for almost 27 years, from October 16, 1978 until his death, making his the second-longest pontificate. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

See also

• Category:Esperantists
• Esperanto culture

The language Esperanto is often used to access an international culture. ...

Source

This page has been translated from the article fr:Espérantiste on the French wikipedia, accessed on June 13, 2006. June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...