Montreal: Esperanto’s capital in 2022!
Montreal will be the capital city for Esperanto in 2022, because that’s where the next World Esperanto Congress will be held, from 6 to 13 August 2022. But what actually is the World Esperanto Congress? We spoke to the team of local organizers – the Local Congress...
Montrealo: la ĉefurbo de Esperantujo en 2022!
Montrealo fariĝas la ĉefurbo de Esperantujo en 2022, ĉar tie okazos la sekva Universala Kongreso de Esperanto, de la 6-a ĝis la 13-a de aŭgusto 2022. Sed kio ĝi ja estas, la Universala Kongreso de Esperanto? Ni turnis nin al la teamo de la lokaj organizantoj – la Loka...
PLPLE21: Workshop on Language Policy, Language Planning and Assessment in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean: Realities and Requirements
Costa Rica is a multilingual and multicultural society which, in addition to Spanish, uses several indigenous languages, one English-based creole and the Costa Rican Sign Language (LESCO), to which can be added the languages of immigrants who have arrived in the...
Giuseppe Peano and ‘Latino sine Flexione’
Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932) is well known in the history of mathematics for his innovations in mathematical notation and his axiomatic theory of natural numbers (“Peano axioms”). These contributions have their origin in the modern philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz...
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...IfI: Information for Interlinguists
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