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WSIS and NGOs – Indispensable Cooperation

by Humphrey Tonkin | Jun 20, 2022 | [ENGLISH], Politics

The World Summit on the Information Society Forum was held in Geneva from 30 May to 3 June this year, and Humphrey Tonkin, representing the World Esperanto Association at the UN in his role as vice-president of the NGO Committee on Language and Languages, was invited...

Interview with Anna Löwenstein

by Alessandra Madella | Jun 6, 2022 | Interviews

This interview with British author Anna Löwenstein was conducted by Alessandra Madella and first appeared on the Ĉina Radio Internacia website in January 2022. She has kindly offered it for republication here. Could you say something about your latest novel, The...

Seeking a Universal Tongue

by Yauheniya Hudziyeva | May 23, 2022 | History, Interlinguistics

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...

Why celebrate language days?

by Humphrey Tonkin | May 9, 2022 | [ENGLISH], Movement, Politics

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)

by Bert Boon | Apr 25, 2022 | [ENGLISH], Numismatics

While ESF Connected lets us shine a spotlight 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 will...

The 7000 Languages App for Endangered Languages

by Stephanie Witkowski | Apr 11, 2022 | [ENGLISH], Education

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

by Simon Davies | Mar 28, 2022 | [ENGLISH], Conlang Excursions

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”

by Hans Eric Becklin | Mar 14, 2022 | [ENGLISH], Reviews

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

by Chuck Mays | Feb 28, 2022 | [ENGLISH], ESF (in English)

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

by Bernhard Tuider | Feb 14, 2022 | [ENGLISH], History, Libraries

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...