1. Esperanto in a Glocal World: Language, Democracy and Globalization A. Giridhar RAO Universala Esperanto-Asocio giridhar.rao@apu.edu.in 2. Esperanto? What? Planned language for international communication Why? Easy to learn And? Not the cultural property of any nation or group: humanity's common resource 3. Esperanto How does it sound? Mia nomo estas Giridhar. Mi estas en Bengaluro. Bengaluro estas la efurbo de la landparto Karnataka. Karnataka estas en suda Barato. Barato estas granda lando en la kontinento Azio. 4. Why Esperanto? - 1 English, French, Chinese, Hindi, Telugu... take too long to learn! Being forced to master someone else's language is unfair. We need a more even playing-field: linguistic democracy. 5. Why Esperanto? - 2 Esperanto is an easy, open-source, democratic solution helps in learning other languages faster promotes global citizenship a tool for peace-building 6. A modern history of China, Japan and Korea (A History to Open a Future), 2007 7. What is Esperanto? Planned language for international communication Easy to learn Not the cultural property of any nation or group 8. Lejzer Ludwik ZAMENHOF (1859-1917) 9. Zamenhof's Esperanto - 1 Russian, Polish, German (fluently); Yiddish, French, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, English (less well). Some knowledge of Spanish, Lithuanian and Volapk 26 July 1887 La Unua Libro 127 years Some original poetry Translated Old Testament, Hamlet, Goethe, Heine, Schiller, Gogol 10. Zamenhof's Esperanto - 2 Volapk? Johann Martin SCHLEYER So, Esperanto was not the first planned language? Certainly not! Over a 1000 such projects through human history! 11. Planned Languages - A Aawaaniaan, Acian, Adelfiy, Adelic, Adinjo, Aduna lingvo, Aeldarspragc (Dale Morris), Aelya (C. Moreland- Stringham), Aeo (Jonathana Tegire), Aertran (A. B. Basham), Afga, Aftesalono, Ahua (R. K.), Akbiekdi, Alarian, Aldana (R. D. Cooper), Alevain (Sydney Mathew Willoughby), Alesi, Allmiror, Almalinian, Almaqerin, Alpha Smart, Alphistian, Altayko, Aluric, Alzetjan (H. Miller), Amaringa, Amaubo, Amelic, mman-Ir, Amtorian, Andan, Ande, Anawanda, Aninese, Antelangua, Arcaicam Esperantom, Arden, Arkian, Arumo (lingvo), Ascian, Asiteya, Assi (P. Pfeaster), Astegonagraphianek, Atlanteano, Atlo-Greka, Aulingese, Auxilingua (J. Bowks, 1979) (Bazita sur Interlingua), Auxilia, (G. Morin, 1947) Ayeis (http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listo_de_planlingvoj) 12. What is Esperanto? Planned language for international communication Easy to learn Not the cultural property of any nation or group 13. Esperanto: the affixes - 1 1. evalo (= Horse / Stallion ) 2. evalino ( = Mare ) 3. evalido ( = Foal / Colt ) 4. evalidino ( = Filly ) 5. evalejo ( = Stable ) 6. evala ( = Horse-like / Equine ) 14. Esperanto: la afiksoj - 2 Arbo = a tree + -ar- = a group of things Arbaro = a forest (vort-ar-o; hom-ar-o) Skribi = to write + -a- = something concrete; something tangible Skribao = some writing; something written -il- = a tool; Skribilo = a pen; Skribilaro = stationery, a bunch of things you need to write with, paper, pens, erasers, etc. 15. Esperanto: the affixes - 3 -ej- = a place; Skribejo = a room where we sit and write; Skribilejo = a room where you keep pens -ist- = a professional; Skribisto = a professional writer, a scribe Skribilisto = someone who professionally makes or sells pens Skribilaristo = a stationery producer or seller 16. Esperanto: the affixes - 4 Ino (female), Ido (child), Aro (set), Ilo (tool), Ejo (place), Isto (professional) words in themselves; lexical affixes Thus: inismo (feminism); ilaro (tool-kit) Highly productive derivational morphology; intensively agglutinating Result: in John Wells' Eo-En / En-Eo dict. (2010), 10 315 entries in Eo; 22 300 in En 17. Why Esperanto? - 1 English, French, Chinese, Hindi, Telugu... take too long to learn! Esperanto? How long? 18. Why Esperanto? - 1 Basic French? Basic German? 100-200 hours of classes (+ homework!) Basic Esperanto? 40 hours max! School English? 10 00015 000 hours of learning! 19. Esperanto: the community - 1 Guestimate: About 100 000 active speakers (Factoid: half the world's 7000 lang. have fewer than 7000 speakers! Mean = 886k) Universala Esperanto-Asocio (Rotterdam): 18 000 members in 111 countries (previous prezidanto: Probal Dasgupta, Kolkato, Barato) ~ 200 families where Esperanto is one of the home languages 20. Esperanto: the community - 2 150-200 books every year Esperanto Wikipedia: > 203 000 articles; with ~ 12 000 hits per hour! 99th World Congress, Bonaero, Argentino 100th en Lillo, Francio (Jul 2015) Online communities: FB, Twitter, Ipernity 21. Asteriks e la Olimpiaj Ludoj (1996) 22. What is Esperanto? Planned language for international communication Easy to learn Not the cultural property of any nation or group 23. Esperanto: Ideology - 1 Praga manifesto (1996) Linguistic democracy Transnational education Pedagogical efficiency 24. Esperanto: Ideology - 2 Multilingualism Linguistic rights Linguistic diversity Human emancipation 25. How to learn Esperanto Free Esperanto courses (in > 41 languages!) at WWW.LERNU.NET 26. Esperanto: the flavour Soneto 18 de ekspiro (Tr. Reto Rosetti) u mi komparu vin al tag' somera? Vi estas ja pli bela kaj serena Majflorojn ofte vipas vent' severa Kaj tro maldaras la somero bena. Jen brulas la okulo de l'ielo Jen vualias ia vido ora Kaj iam senbelias iu belo La voj' natura a pro fat' rigora Sed jam ne velkos via plensomero Nek deklinios de l'beleco nuna La morto vin ne tenos kun fiero Se vin la vers' eterna gardas juna. Dum homoj spiros kaj okuloj vidos Vivante en vivanta vers' vi sidos. 27. Esperanto en mondloka mondo: la lingvo, demokratio kaj tutmondio