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amuza kaj interesa libro, Mi ne sciis ĉi tiujn faktojn pri la historio de Esperanto kaj ĝiaj rivaloj I picked this up just because Im a linguistics nerd and Ive always thought the idea of artificial languages was very interesting.
I got all the linguistics talk I wanted from it, along with some interesting food for thought related to how and why different social and political movements usually antinationalism, pacifism and socialism have used Esperanto as a tool for activism.
A very interesting and enjoyable book focusing mainly on Esperanto, Ido and Volapuk, It's similar to In The Land of Invented Languages although

it goes into more detail and doesn't contain personal experiences, The author has an outsider perspective and doesn't cite any material written in the invented languages, so I presume he can't read them, All in all a fascinating read covering the period from, although the short nature of the book makes it hard to justify its very expensive price, The problems of international communication and linguistic rights are recurring debates in the presentday age of globalization, But the debate truly began over a hundred years ago, when the increasingly interconnected world of the nineteenth century fostered a desire for the development of a global lingua franca.
Many individuals and social movements competed to create an artificial language unencumbered by the political rivalries that accompanied English, German, and French, Organizations including the American Philosophical Society, the International Association of Academies, the International Peace Bureau, the Comintern, and the League of Nations intervened in the debate about the possibility of an artificial language, but of the numerous tongues created before World War II, only Esperanto survives today.


Esperanto and Its Rivals sheds light on the factors that led almost all artificial languages to fail and helped English to prevail as the global tongue of the twentyfirst century.
Exploring the social and political contexts of the three most prominent artificial languagesVolapuk, Esperanto, and IdoRoberto Garvia examines the roles played by social movement leaders and inventors, the strategies different organizations used to lobby for each language, and other early decisions that shaped how those languages spread and evolved.
Through the rise and fall of these artificial languages, Esperanto and Its Rivals reveals the intellectual dilemmas and political anxieties that troubled the globalizing world at the turn of the twentieth century.
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