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Esperanto and the Search for a Global Language (Encore)

Everything Everywhere Daily

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The Meaning of Geoglyphs

Most linguists claim that there are about 7,000 languages in the world today. The vast majority of these languages are spoken by a very small number of people. There's no one language that has anything close to a majority of speakers. One Polish optimologist set out to create a new language based on many European languages and taking the best elements from each.

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