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Imagine a new, universal, easy-to-learn international language that
bridges the world's communication gap. Hyderabad Times discovers…
Esperanto
SARIT RAY Times News Network
hyderabadtimes@indiatimes.com Many have dreamt of the possibility of a neutral world language, to
solve all international communication problems. Many others, however,
might think of the idea as utopian, or in other words, impossible.
Welcome to Esperanto, a constructed auxiliary language, created by
Zamenhof from Poland in the 1870s, to serve as an easy and intelligible
medium of communication for all. And while some of you may have heard
of the language, the startling facts are that within a short span of a
hundred years, the language has gained reasonable popularity and is now
spoken fluently by about 1 lakh people in various countries and taught
in roughly 600 schools. And that's not all, there are over a 100,000
articles on the internet in Esperanto and there is an Esperanto version
of a popular web-search engine! Hyderabad Times talks to A Giridhar
Rao, the Hyderabad based general secretary of the Indian Esperanto
Federation.
A world language sounds like an audacious aim. What makes Esperanto
work? Over the years, there have been several attempts to create a universal
language, and Zamenhof's project was one such. Esperanto is easy to
learn, for unlike other naturally born languages, it uses fixed
root-words, and logical affixes to denote noun, adjective, gender, etc.
Thus, the word 'skrib' (write) also gives us 'skribilaro' (stationery),
denoting things used to write.
But can a language aiming only to be an additional language, become one
of natural expression or literature?
Many have the same doubt, but just a hundred years of Esperanto's
history has produced original poetry, prose and translations. As a
standard scientific language again, Esperanto is valuable. At The
International Academy of Sciences, San Marino, in fact, Esperanto is
the language of instruction.
English is internationally spoken. So, why the need for Esperanto?
English is the international language, but only for a select few. A lot
of people with other native first languages never end up mastering
English quite as well, and in some countries like Japan, it is hardly
spoken. Even those who speak English fluently are still looked upon as
nonnative speakers, and therefore, not equals. Esperanto, on the other
hand, is neutral (as it does not belong to a race), and easier to
master than English, as the significantly lesser number of root words is
easier on the memory.
But, can it benefit India, with its large number of native languages
and dialects? For a native Telugu speaker, Kashmiri will be as alien as say,
Japanese. So, it will act as a communication bridge here. Though there are only a
handful of Indians who speak Esperanto yet, the language's flexibility
will help it incorporate new words and ideas as they come along. I am
translating Gandhi's autobiography into Esperanto, and had to come up
with logical words and variations for a word like, say chapatti.
But an artificial world language will be looked upon with scepticism.
Scepticism comes from people who haven't explored the language as yet.
But, its popularity on the internet and in chatrooms shows its
usability. The other fear of native languages being threatened does not
arise, for Esperanto only aims to be an additional language of
convenience and not meant to replace native languages.
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