n. 世界语

[ noun ]
an artificial language based as far as possible on words common to all the European languages
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Esperanto \Es`pe*ran"to\, n.
An artificial language, intended to be universal, devised by
Dr. Zamenhof, a Russian, who adopted the pseudonym ``Dr.
Esperanto'' in publishing his first pamphlet regarding it in
1887. The vocabulary is very largely based upon words common
to the chief European languages, and sounds peculiar to any
one language are eliminated. The spelling is phonetic, and
the accent (stress) is always on the penult. A revised and
simplified form, called {Ido} was developed in 1907, but
Esperanto remained at the end of the 20th century the most
popular aritficial language designed for normal human
linguistic communication. -- {Es`pe*ran"tist}, n.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ] ||