{"id":307,"date":"2009-07-28T21:33:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T21:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=307"},"modified":"2009-07-28T21:33:58","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T21:33:58","slug":"esperanto-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/28\/esperanto-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Esperanto anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/zamenhof-259x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Ludwig Lazar Zamenhof\" title=\"Dr Ludwig Lazar Zamenhof\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-308\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/zamenhof-259x300.jpg 259w, http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/zamenhof.jpg 337w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/>The 150th anniversary of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onb.ac.at\/ev\/collections\/esperanto\/Planned_languages_Ludwig_Lazar_Zamenhof.htm\">Dr Ludwig Lazar Zamenhof<\/a>\u2019s \u2013 the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esperanto.net\/info\/index_en.html\">Esperanto<\/a> \u2013 birth is just around the corner, to be marked by an <a href=\"http:\/\/polskieradio.pl\/thenews\/international\/artykul112751_poland_hosts_world_esperanto_congress_.html\">Esperanto congress<\/a> held in his birthplace of Bialystok, Poland. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve briefly mentioned this <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Constructed_language\">conlag <\/a>in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/15\/conlagsconlags\/ Edit\">previous posts<\/a>, and I found an interesting BBC article about Esperanto being spoken in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Esperanto was designed to \u201cfoster harmony and coexistence\u201d and is currently spoken by around one million people worldwide. The language appears to attract people who are both enthusiastic about the language and willing to meet and befriend others who speak it, fostering a community not unlike Zamenhof envisioned, if on a somewhat smaller scale \u2013 something that cannot be said for all languages. As an interviewee says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s say you go to a little village in the south of France,&#8221; says Israeli Yehuda Miklaf. &#8220;You ask: Does anyone here speak English? And they say: Henri does. So you go and say to Henri: Hi, I speak English. And Henri says: That&#8217;s nice. &#8220;Then you ask: Who here speaks Esperanto? They say: Pierre does. So you come up to Pierre and say: Hi, I speak Esperanto. Pierre says: Have you had lunch? It really is like this.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/8159082.stm\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 150th anniversary of Dr Ludwig Lazar Zamenhof\u2019s \u2013 the author of Esperanto \u2013 birth is just around the corner, to be marked by an Esperanto congress held in his birthplace of Bialystok, Poland. I\u2019ve briefly mentioned this conlag in previous posts, and I found an interesting BBC article about Esperanto being spoken in Israel. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,113,35,109],"tags":[145,143,142,51,144],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-esperanto","category-events","category-invented-languages","tag-conlag","tag-dr-ludwig-lazae-zamenhof","tag-esperanto-congress","tag-language","tag-poland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}