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QAAXJIA/ Humphrey Ion kin iBBi K fLip {AXIAIA^CI Humphrey tonkin, Jane towards and Karen Johnson-Weiner BOSTON PUBLIC t Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/esperantolanguagOOjant Esperanto Pierre Jan ton Esperanto LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND COMMUNITY Edited by HUMPHREY TONKIN Translated by HUMPHREY TONKIN, JANE EDWARDS, and KAREN JOHNSON-WEINER STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS Originally published as L’ESPERANTO © Presses Universitaires de France, 1973 Published in Esperanto as HET ESPERANTO © Esperanto Centrum Nederland, 1987 Published by State University of New York Press, Albany © 1993 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, address State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, N.Y., 12246 Production by E. Moore Marketing by Theresa A. Swierzowski Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Janton, Pierre. [Esperanto. English] Esperanto: language, literature, and community / Pierre Janton; edited by Humphrey Tonkin; translated by Humphrey Tonkin, Jane Edwards, and Karen Johnson-Weiner. p. cm. Rev. translation of: L'esperanto. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-1253-9 (alk. paper).—ISBN 0-7914-1254-7 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Esperanto. I. Tonkin, Humphrey. II. Title. PM8208.J313 1993 91-42318 499'.992—dc20 CIP 109 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Editor's Preface vii Abbreviations ix Introduction xi Chapter 1. Esperanto and Planned Languages 1 Chapter 2. The Origins of Esperanto 23 Chapter 3. The Language 41 Chapter 4. Expression 79 Chapter 5. The Literature 91 Chapter 6. The Esperanto Movement 113 Chapter 7. Conclusion 129 Notes 135 Bibliography 143 Index 157 v
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