Category: German Esperantists

The British, German and French associations, the largest ones, took up the initiative to found a new organization, Universala Federacio Esperantista ( World Federation of Esperantists ), as a federation of national associations.

Category: German Esperantists

Category: German Esperantists

Category: German Esperantists

Certain German soldiers who knew Esperanto sometimes tried to make contact with the underground group but were politely turned away because of the war situation and the danger that Esperantists faced if exposed.

He denounced Esperanto as " the language of spies " and had Esperantists exiled or executed.

Esperantists sometimes were able to get around the ban by convincing guards that they were teaching Italian, the language of Germany's closest ally.

He denounced Esperanto as " the language of spies " and had Esperantists exiled or executed.

Many Esperantists believe this declaration stabilising the language is a major reason why the Esperanto speaker community grew beyond the levels attained by other constructed languages and has developed a flourishing culture.

In contrast, Zamenhof declared that " Esperanto belongs to the Esperantists ", and moved to the background once the language was published, allowing others to share in the early development of the language.

Additionally, many Esperantists use the language as a window to the larger world, to meet people from other countries on an equal footing, and for travel.

Although it fractured the Esperanto movement, the schism gave the remaining Esperantists freedom to concentrate on using and promoting their language as it stood.

After the founding of the NEL, Norwegian Esperantists began a comprehensive program of language promotion and instruction.

In a vote among Esperantists that took place in 1894, however, he voted against changes to the language and, from then on, adhered to the basic principles of the language as originally espoused by Zamenhof, the so-called Fundamento de Esperanto.

And what is more difficult is not to create an interlanguage, but to make it live, and only Esperanto has succeeded in that ; to leave the base of Esperanto and the huge work already done by Esperantists would be true craziness, further that Esperantists will never accept a completely new language.

Among later Esperantists, this philosophy has tended to reinforce a set of propositions about the language:

Though Esperanto may be more neutral as well as easier to master, Esperantists can usually only communicate with other Esperantists ; Interlingua, however, can be understood well by a speaker of any Romance language ( as well as sufficiently educated speakers of other European languages, especially English ).

" To overcome such misunderstanding of and resistance towards the activities of BEL, I took upon myself the following tasks: ( 1 ) to compile quotations from the Bahá ' í Writings about Esperanto and the language problem ; ... ( 2 ) to collect Bahá ' í-Esperanto documents and to translate various Bahá ' í texts into Esperanto ; ... ( 3 ) to produce and distribute information material and basic documents in English and Esperanto as an aid towards making BEL better known among both Bahá ' ís and Esperantists.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá also praised the ideal of Esperanto, a constructed language, and there was an affinity between Esperantists and Bahá ' ís during the late 19th century and early 20th century.

The king jokingly remarked that the Esperantists were easy to get along with, but it was impossible to understand what they were saying.

Esperantists were killed during the Holocaust, with Zamenhof's family in particular singled out for murder.

The efforts of some Esperantists to expel Jewish colleagues and align themselves with the Reich were finally helpless and Esperanto was forbidden in 1936.

In Imperial Japan, the left-wing of the Japanese Esperanto movement was persecuted, but its leaders were careful enough not to give the impression to the government that the Esperantists were revolutionaries, which proved a successful strategy.

By 1991 there were enough African Esperantists to warrant a pan-African congress.

Author Kazimierz Bein, while attending a conference at which it was generally agreed that everyone in the world should learn Esperanto, remarked that the first who ought to learn it were the Esperantists themselves.

As noted above, some Esperantists feel that if Esperanto were widely used, linguistic diversity could more easily be defended.

Most of the latter translations were made indirectly, through Esperantists.

With this letter he included a first draft of the constitution of the proposed organisation in which its main aims were defined, namely, the publication of Bahá ' í literature in Esperanto, the dissemination of the Bahá ' í Faith amongst the Esperantists and the promotion of Esperanto in the Bahá ' í Community.

In issue No. 5 ( April 1973 ) of " Komuna Bahaa Letero " the House's consent was announced to all the Bahá ' í Esperantists who were known to the initiators of the project.

Following the " Internacia Junulara Kongreso " ( IJK, International Youth Congress ) in Kraków, Poland, in 1987, the League was even able to found a youth section, known as JuBEL, which for several years afterwards was able to arrange that young Bahá ' í Esperantists took part in the annual International Youth Congresses ( IJK ) and that Bahá ' í items were included in the congress programmes.

Category: Italian Esperantists

Category: Italian Esperantists

Category: Italian Esperantists

At first a number of leading Esperantists put their support behind the Ido project, but the movement stagnated and declined, first with the accidental death of one of its main proponents and later as people proposed further changes, and the number of current speakers is estimated at between 250 and 5000.

Pasporta Servo is a global network of Esperanto speakers who host Esperantists traveling through their countries.

* 1987: 6000 Esperantists attend the 72nd Universala Kongreso in Warsaw to mark Esperanto's centennial.

It is estimated that 20 % of the Esperanto leaders and 3-4 % of the ordinary Esperantists defected to Ido.

In 1914, he politely declined an invitation to join a new organization of Jewish Esperantists, the TEHA.

Some Esperantists object to the use of terms like " hymn " or " anthem " for La Espero, arguing that these terms have religious and nationalist overtones respectively.

The Pasporta Servo ( Passport Service ) is a hospitality service for Esperantists.

The Pasporta Servo directory is published every year by TEJO, the World Organization for Young Esperantists.

In 1906, the French general Hyppolyte Sebert created his Esperantista Centra Oficejo ( Central Office of the Esperantists ) in Paris.

They did not like the perspective that new Esperantists, created by the traditional groups, would be picked up by UEA.

As noted above, Esperantists often argue for Esperanto as an ethnically neutral means of communication.

Some Esperantists maintain that Esperanto does have an international culture, or interculture, developed over the past century, which includes among other things a significant original literature that provides the Esperanto community with a common background — a distinctive feature of any cultural community.