Lightning Talk: Dying for Your Language - History of Esperanto
summary
Esperanto is a constructed international auxiliary language created by Zamenhof in 1887 and today counts about 2,000 native speakers and ~100,000 total speakers. Early adopters promoted it worldwide, but states often suspect its internationalism: Imperial Japan banned leftist groups, Nazi Germany persecuted Esperantists (Zamenhof’s family murdered), and the Soviet Union reverses policy in 1937, accusing members of espionage and having thousands executed during the Great Purge.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Introduction to language
- 1:03Constructed languages
- 2:13Esperanto and Zamenhof
- 4:25Repression of Esperantists
