Importance Of Essperanto In English Language

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There have been many people that invented languages for many purposes. Esperanto is a universal language invented by Dr. Lejzer Ludwik Zamenhof in 1887 through a book called Lingvo Internacia. Dr. Zamenhof is a Russian physician who was seeking a cmmon denominator for different nationalities of the world to communicate with each other. Esperanto is considered international auxiliary language which intends not to replace ethnic languages but to serve as an additional, second language for all people. Esperanto is most useful for communicating among people of diverse nations who do not have a common mother tongue and it is the most widely spoken constructed language in the world. Comparing Esperanto to English, we can see the similarities or differences between the alphabets, vowels, pronouns and word order. Esperanto is invented because it brings tolerance and respect for people of diverse nations and cultures. About 70% of Esperanto vocabulary comes from Romance languages, about 20% from Germanic languages and English and some part from Slavic languages. “Esperanto is a neutral language, extraordinarily easy to learn, the property of no particular nation, but belonging with equal right to the whole world. Esperanto has two aims: a practical aim, and an ideal” (Zamenhof, 1907, p.16). Esperanto was accepted reluctantly and its …show more content…
For Esperanto is well equipped with pronouns. “The personal pronouns are: mi (I), vi (you), li (he), si (she), gi (it), si (self), ni (we), vi (you), ili (they), oni (one, they, the people (indefinite))” (United States, 1962, p.5). Esperanto pronouns include personal pronouns which refer to the persons speaking, indefinite pronouns, relative pronouns which connect parts of sentences and reciprocal pronouns in which the object of a verb is being acted on by verb 's subject. Learning the Esperanto Pronouns is very important because its structure is used in every day

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