The Esperanto movement, less commonly referred to as Esperantism ( eo, Esperantismo), is a
movement to disseminate the use of the
planned international language Esperanto.
[See the definition in the]
Deklaracio pri la Esenco de la Esperantismo
("Bulonja Deklaracio", 1905) The movement does not aim to supplant national languages but merely to supplement them.
The movement is sometimes used to describe all speakers of Esperanto including their
culture
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.
Politics
Esperanto has been placed in a few proposed political situations. The most popular of these is the former minor party ''
Europe—Democracy—Esperanto'', which aims to establish Esperanto as the
official language
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of the
European Union
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.
Grin's Report, published in 2005 by
François Grin
François Grin (born 14 September 1959) is a Swiss economist. One of his research fields is the economics of language.
Grin studied economics at the University of Geneva, where he obtained a doctorate summa cum laude in 1989. He then was a tea ...
found that the use of the
English language
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as the ''
lingua franca'' within the European Union costs billions annually and significantly benefits
English-speaking countries
The following is a list of English-speaking population by country, including information on both native speakers and second-language speakers.
List
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financially. The report considered a scenario where Esperanto would be the ''lingua franca'' and found that it would have many advantages, particularly economically speaking, as well as
ideologically.
See also
*
Raumism
Further reading
* ''The Esperanto Book''
Chapter 9: "The Literary Scene"by Don Harlow. 1995.
References
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