Esperanto

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/esperanto

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the creator's full name?Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof
2. What is the year of first publication?1887
3. Who created Esperanto and when?A doctor named Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof invented Esperanto in 1887.
4. Why was Esperanto made?It was made to help people understand each other better and to make friends across different countries.

Constructed Language (Conlang): A language whose phonology, grammar, and vocabulary are consciously devised by an individual or group.
Lingua Franca: A language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language.
Linguistic Imperialism: The transfer of a dominant language to other people, often associated with cultural or political dominance.
Agglutinative Language: A language in which each morpheme (basic unit of meaning) is typically composed of a single grammatical category and is clearly delimited.