Giuseppe Peano kaj ‘Latino sine Flexione’
Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932) estas fama en la historio de matematiko pri sia novigo de la matematika notacio kaj sia aksioma teorio de naturaj nombroj (“Peano-aksiomoj”). Tiuj kontribuoj devenas de la moderna filozofo Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716). Peano akiris...
ESF ~ mid-year
In 2020 the work of the Esperantic Studies Foundation (ESF) focused more particularly on international language issues, and especially the promotion of equality among languages, international communication on the basis of linguistic equality, and linguistic justice....
Conlang Excursions 3: Hidden in Plain Sight
“It is hard to know whether the Anta are a nation, a religion, a secret society or a mixture of all three. They have apparently been living in the British Isles for at least a thousand years, and there are thought to be between ten and twenty thousand of them,...
Clarence Bicknell – Esperanto with gusto
Clarence Bicknell, after flirting with Volapük, discovered Esperanto in 1897, ten years after Zamenhof published his Unua Libro. How and where he heard about the language remain a mystery but the spark took flame in Clarence’s head. Bicknell threw himself into...
Multilingual and multicultural people and their identity
Multilingual and multicultural people are increasing in number. Some from curiosity, others from necessity. Their backgrounds vary just as their combinations of languages and cultures do. Polyglots attract respect in the area of language learning, but also mistrust...
Personnes polyglottes et multiculturelles et leur identité
Les personnes polyglottes et multiculturelles sont de plus en plus nombreuses. Certaines par curiosité, d’autres par nécessité. Leurs parcours varient tout comme les combinaisons de langues et de cultures. Les polyglottes suscitent de l’admiration quand il s’agit de...
Conlang Excursions 2: Down the Rabbit-Hole
My previous post gave a brief sketch of Elefen, a.k.a. Lingua Franca Nova, a regularised Romance creole, and pointed out some of the ways in which it resembles and differs from Esperanto. This time I’ll be looking at how well these two languages fare at translating...
History and Esperanto
I am a historian – more precisely, a classicist, i.e. a specialist in the Graeco-Roman world – and an Esperanto-speaker. For some twenty-five years I have taught and researched in this field, concentrating on the period of the Emperor Justinian (A.D. 527-565), for the...
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,...IfI: Information for Interlinguists
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