Esperanto and Its Rivals

Esperanto and Its Rivals
Author: Roberto Garvía Soto
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2015-06-04
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0812247108

Roberto Garvía explores the history of artificial spoken or written languages and the people who fought for them. Taking the three most prominent—Volapük, Esperanto, and Ido—Garvía investigates what drove so many to invest incredible energy and time to learn and promote them.