The Esperanto Congress at Oxford recently was a reminder that many attempts have been made to overcome the language difficulty by establishing one language to be used the world oyer. One of the earliest proposals for a world-language was made m a book which a Bishop of Chester published in 1668. ,A "world-language" that made a cejrtain amount of progress was called Volapuk. It was invented by a Swiss named Johann Martin fSchleyer, who spent 20 years in working it out. Esperanto—meaning "the language of hope"—was invented by a Polish doctor named Zamenhof, who published the results of his work in 1887. It was introduced into in 1002.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20085, 14 November 1930, Page 8
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