From Esperanto to Dothraki: a book review (2)
Piperski, Aleksandr: Конструирование языков: от эсперанто до дотракийского ‘Constructing Languages: from Esperanto to Dothraki’. Moscow, Alypina Non-Fikšn 2017, 224 paĝoj. ISBN 978-5-91671-1. This is the second part of a lengthy article by Stanislav Košecký...
CED turns 70 at the 44th Conference on Esperanto Studies
On a rainy day in London in 1952, after reading another newspaper article misrepresenting Esperanto as “the failed universal language that’s no longer spoken”, Ivo Lapenna stood up from his office chair, looked out the window and thought: “It’s time to create some...
From Esperanto to Dothraki: a book review (1)
Piperski, Aleksandr: Конструирование языков: от эсперанто до дотракийского ‘Constructing Languages: from Esperanto to Dothraki’. Moscow, Alypina Non-Fikšn 2017, 224 paĝoj. ISBN 978-5-91671-1. Review by Stanislav Košecký, Slovakia. The book is pictured alongside Dr...
Seeking a Universal Tongue
On 25 March 2022, a panel “Seeking a Universal Tongue: Esperanto and Politics in East Asia” took place at the annual conference of the Association for Asian Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii. The panel presented papers by Joshua Fogel (York University, Canada), Yauheniya...
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...
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...
Libraries 4: An introduction to the GDREA alphabetical catalogue
The GDREA alphabetical catalogue also exists on CD. It contains more than 2000 titles of monographs and collections, mainly in Esperanto, which until 1990 were part of the library of GDREA, the Esperanto Association of the East German Kulturbund (Cultural...
What We (Should) Talk About When We Talk About Translating Esperanto Literature
Translators of literature from so-called “small” languages into English are often thrust into an unusual role. Beyond representing individual authors and their works, these translators are asked to serve as the seemingly sole ambassadors for an entire culture, tasked...
Libraries 2: The national Esperanto archive in Croatia
The national Esperanto archive in Croatia, Dokumenta Esperanto-Centro (DEC), was founded as a private collection by Josip Pleadin in the 1980s. Iwas made official by the founding of a society of the same name on June 13, 2010. It is located in the town of Đurđevac,...IfI: Information for Interlinguists
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