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Esperanto

es·pe·ranto

UK/ˌɛspəˈɹæntəʊ/ US/ˌɛspəˈɹæntoʊ/ uncommon

noun

1.

an artificial language based as far as possible on words common to all the European languages

Origin

A learned borrowing from Esperanto Esperanto. Originally, this was the pseudonym assumed by the creator of the language, L. L. Zamenhof, and the language was called Lingvo Internacia (“international language”). The term first appears in the publication Science in 1892.

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