The Esperanto flag (or verda stelo, literally "green star") is composed of a green background with a white square in the upper lefthand corner, which in turn contains a green star. The green field symbolizes hope, the white symbolizes peace and neutrality, and the five-pointed star represents the five continents (as traditionally counted). Image File history File links Verda Stelo en pravajn proporciojn. ... Image File history File links esperanto jubilea simbolo flag Source of the image: FOTW - Flags of the World File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Esperanto flag Esperanto is the most widely spoken constructed international language. ... A flag is a piece of coloured cloth flown from a pole or mast, usually for purposes of signalling or identification. ... The concept of peace ranks among the most controversial in our time. ... The Pleiades star cluster A star is any massive gaseous body in outer space. ... Dymaxion map by Buckminster Fuller shows land mass with minimal distortion as only one continuous continent A continent (Latin continere, to hold together) is a large continuous land mass. ...

By recommendation of the board of the World Esperanto Association, the flag should have the following proportions. The ratio of the width of the flag to the height of the flag to a side of the white square should 3 to 2 to 1. The ratio of a side of the white square to the radius of a circle enclosing the star should be 10 to 3.5. 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...

Some Esperanto speakers consider the traditional flag too nationalistic for an international language, so many organizations no longer recommend its use and, instead, fly a new version: the jubilea simbolo (jubilee symbol, two green "E"s facing each other on a white field), created in 1987 by a Brazilian Esperantist. On the other hand, this new flag is derogatively called the melono (melon) by some. // Nationalism is an ideology which holds that the nation, ethnicity or national identity is a fundamental unit of human social life, and makes certain political claims based on that belief, above all the claim that the nation is the only legitimate basis for the state, and that each nation is... The letter E is the fifth letter in the Latin alphabet. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Most Esperantists, however continue to hold the verda stelo dear as a symbol of international or supranational solidarity. Sometimes, Esperanto travellers will display the flag to make it easier to meet other Esperanto speakers.

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

	Esperanto
Language:	Grammar | Phonology | Pronunciation | Orthography | Vocabulary Image File history File links Verda Stelo en pravajn proporciojn. ... Esperanto is a constructed auxiliary language with an agglutinative morphology, no grammatical gender, and simple verbal and nominal inflections. ... Main article: Esperanto Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ... Below is a list of all of the letters in the Esperanto alphabet and how to pronounce them transliterated into English and SAMPA. a: ah, [a] b: b, [b] c: ts [ts] ĉ: ch, [tS] d: d, [d] e: eh, [e] f: f, [f] g: hard g (as in go... Sm 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. ...
History:	Zamenhof | Proto-Esperanto | Declaration of Boulogne | Esperantido Timeline of Esperanto 1859: Lazar Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto, is born in Białystok, Russia (now Poland). ... Dr. Ludovic Lazarus (Ludwik Lejzer) Zamenhof (December 15, 1859–April 14, 1917) was a Russian-Jewish ophthalmologist, philologist, and Zionist, and the initiator of Esperanto, the most widely spoken planned language to date. ... 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. ... 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. ... Esperantido is the term used within the Esperanto and constructed language communities to describe a language project based on or inspired by Esperanto. ...
Culture:	Films | Flag | La Espero | Literature | Music | Zamenhof Day The language Esperanto is often used to access an international culture. ... // Feature films There are two feature films known to have been shot exclusively in the constructed language Esperanto. ... La Espero (the hope) is a poem written by L. L. Zamenhof (1859-1917), the initiator of the Esperanto language. ... 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. ... Main article: Esperanto Music in a variety of styles is written, recorded, and performed in Esperanto, a planned language used for international communication. ... December 15 (Zamenhof Day, Zamenhofa Festo) is the birthday of L. L. Zamenhof, the initiator of Esperanto. ...
	Criticism