Why celebrate language days?
Why does the Esperanto movement celebrate the special days of the six official languages of the United Nations? These languages have grown strong not via their cultural achievements – though their achievements are enormous – but through their military and economic...
Numismatics: an Esperanto cultural treasure trove no longer in the dark (1)
While ESF Connected lets us shine a vigorous light on this infrequently seen topic, we must advise readers that the following presentation of the role of Esperanto numismatics in the culture of Esperanto can offer only a concise and partial picture. Nevertheless, we...
The 7000 Languages App for Endangered Languages
There are about 7000 languages in the world, and nearly half of them are at risk of disappearing. For the communities that wish to continue teaching, learning and using their languages, the loss is devastating. Language endangerment is also often the loss of history,...
Conlang Excursions 5: Making a Good Thing Better
In my previous article in this series, I described several oligosynthetic languages – in which the vocabulary is built up from a very small number of fundamental pieces – and I noted that the meanings of words constructed via such a system can be difficult to predict:...
Ultimately specialist: A review of “La homa lingvo”
Collinson, William E. La homa lingvo: Human Language. Translated into English by Simon Davies. Edited by Angela Tellier and Wim Jansen. Rotterdam: Universala Esperanto-Asocio, 2019. 254 pages. €15 in the UEA Catalogue. As human society evolves, some things stay much...
2022 Marjorie Boulton Fellowships
The Esperantic Studies Foundation (ESF) announces its 2022 competition for research fellowships in all fields of the humanities and social sciences, particularly as they relate to interlinguistics, linguistic justice, intercultural communication, Esperanto, and...
Archives at Vienna’s Esperanto Museum
The Esperanto Museum in Vienna has for a long time been mainly regarded as a museum and library concerning Esperanto and constructed languages, but in fact, since its foundation in 1927, it has also been home to content-rich archives. Today the Esperanto Museum...
Marjorie Boulton Fellowship Report
Born in Gouda in the Netherlands, I had a strong interest in foreign languages from an early age. I had the opportunity to learn several modern and classical languages in school. Upon graduation, I decided to expand my interest by choosing to study Japanese in...
African website is upgraded and back in service
Initial results indicate that the site is easier to use and maintain, but efforts are ongoing to make it even more lively, flexible, attractive, fresh in terms of its content and correct in its use of language, overseen by the UEA Commission for African Activity. We...IfI: Information for Interlinguists
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