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A Brief History of Esperanto, the 135-year-old Language of Peace Hated by Hitler and Stalin Alike
Joshua Holzer | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Aug 2022

Esperanto’s vocabulary is mostly from English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Polish, Russian and Yiddish, the languages that Zamenhof was most familiar with. Grammatically, it was primarily influenced by European languages, but some innovations bear a resemblance to some Asian languages, such as Chinese.

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