ESPERANTO CONGRESS
UNIVERSAL LANGUAGES. The Esperanto Congress at Oxford re» ccntly was a reminder that many attempts have been made to overcome tho language difficulty by establishing ono language to be used the world over. One of the earliest proposals for a world-language was made in a book which a Bishop of Chester published in 1668. A li world-language’’ that made a certain amount of progress was called Volapuk. It was invented by a Swiss named Johann Martin Schleyer, 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. Jt was introduced into England in 1902.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 419, 10 November 1930, Page 10
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116ESPERANTO CONGRESS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 419, 10 November 1930, Page 10
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