The history of esperanto language
There are more than 3000 languages spoken around the world. Such abundance of languages is a great obstacle for people to communicate, due to this fact plenty of people consider it as an imprecation. Since the antique times peole tried to compose one language, neutral and easy to learn for everyone. Esperanto was developed out of many projects and finally applied in practice in 1887, when Dr. L. Zamenhof declared about its origin in Warsaw. The language is suitable not only for the scientific writings, but for the belles-lettres as well, as it is very clear, sonorous, logic and easy to learn. A few of simple Esperanto grammar rules should be compared with a great number of complicated ones of the various native languages. The difference would be amazing!
In 1908 young Swiss H. Hodler founded The World Esperantists Association (Universala Esperanto Asocio, UEA), which unites all Esperanto speakers around the world. The Association is neutral in respect of religions, politics and nationalities. Esperanto is the administrative language. All the citizens of all the countries around the world are welcomed to become the members of the Association. The association organizes congresses, publishes its own journal. Many countries have not only clubs, but the national Esperanto organizations as well. The UEA has founded documentation and research centres and has constant committees, co-ordinating teaching of Esperanto at schools, organizations of the summer universities, text - books publishing, organizations of the literary competitions, activities of the international theatre, etc. All the largest cities of the world have the delegates of the Association, who provide voluntary help for the foreign Esperantists, newly arrived in the country. The branch offices of the Association are situated in New York, Budapest, Antverpen. Esperanto movement has already embraced all the world, however, its centres are in Europe, Asia and America. Countries, actively using Esperanto, are: Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Japan, China, Vietnam; also India, Sri Lanka, Iran, Brazil, Cuba and even Congo, Madagascar, Ruanda. In Lithuania the Esperanto movement started just after the issue of the first book in Esperanto "Lingvo Internacia" by L. Zamenhof in 1887. Already in 1890 one of the first Lithuanian Esperantists A. Dambrauskas - Jakštas published the manual of Esperanto "Mokintuvė tarptautiškos kalbos d - ro Esperanto" ("The Text - Book of the International Language Esperanto"). He also wrote a book "Apie naujas trigonometrijos sistemas" ("About the New Systems of Trigonometry") and the collection of poems "Versajxareto" (in 1905) in Esperanto. In 1910 Kaunas Esperantists Association was founded which published the periodical issue "Kovna Esperantisto". In 1919 Lithuanian Esperantists Union was established which published the newspaper "Litova Stelo" ("Lithuanian Star", 1935 - 1940). In the War - break and Soviet Lithuania a lot of issues of newspapers, journals and literary creations in Esperanto were published as well. Nowadays Esperanto is still popular too. Lithuanian Esperanto Organization has lots of activities in respect of the popularization of the language, great number of clubs unites Lithuanian Esperantists, a lot of manuals, books, periodical issues are published. Esperanto popularity spreads in Lithuania and around the world and that seems to be an interesting time verified linguistic experiment.
