Conlang Excursions 1: A Journey in Elefenland
Constructed languages are fascinating. Beyond the Esperanto-dominated field of IALs (international auxiliaries), creative minds have come up with thousands of experimental or artistic languages, often purely for the pleasure of doing so. In this occasional series,...
Libraries 1: Digital media from the Department of Planned Languages at the Austrian National Library
Since its foundation in 1927, the Esperanto Museum at the Austrian National Library has been holding an extensive library and archives, which were given the name Department of Planned Languages in 1990. Located in the Palais Mollard (see image above) it is home to the...
The politics of language: the case of Hyderabad, ‘Decolonial Subversions’, and Esperanto in an Indian University
Monika begins. Thinking of linguistic justice and decolonisation brings me back to one humid summer afternoon – it must have been around 2010-11 – when, sitting in the living room of an apartment-block in the South Indian city of Hyderabad, I was engrossed in my first...
A letter from the president
In times of crisis, we show what we’re made of. This year, ESF has shown time and time again that it is essential. We didn’t pause our work, waiting for a return to normalcy. Instead, we leveraged our resources and expertise, helping our partners quickly move from...
Esperanto Learning with Major Trivia!
The team at the Culpeper Language Learning Center (Gustavus Adolphus College), along with volunteers from many different locations, are developing a series of free trivia games under the name of Major Trivia to help language learners develop linguistic and vocabulary...
Do we care about linguistic justice? Then we should measure it!
Imagine being involved in a court case that takes place in a language you have trouble following or expressing yourself in. Imagine finding yourself on a hospital ward where no one understands anything you say. Imagine living in a country for all of your life and...
A turn for the better…
There’s a lot about language that we don’t understand – or willfully ignore. For example, there’s much controversy about where language came from, who invented it, and why. Did we create language because we had the organs of speech and the desire to speak, or did we...IfI: Information for Interlinguists
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