Most languages develop through centuries of use among groups of people. But some have a different origin: They are invented, from scratch, from one individual’s mind. Familiar examples include the ...

It’s a late afternoon on Tuesday at the Bluewall Cafe and Steven Brewer, the founding father of the Amherst Esperanto Club, is telling a story about a man he knows through Esperanto, Dave Coffin from ...

I started learning Esperanto in high school after reading Harry Harrison's The Stainless Steel Rat books—in that series, Esperanto is spoken as the trade language of the galaxy. As I was doing three ...