Cuba Will Host World Esperanto Congress in July
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- Culture and Traditions
- 06 / 19 / 2010
HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 18 (acn) Representatives from 60 countries will participate in the 95th World Esperanto Congress and the 66th Youth Congress of Esperanto scheduled for July 17-24 in Havana.
Taking place in parallel with these two events will be the 43rd International Conference of Esperanto Teachers, all of them sponsored by the Cuban Ministry of Culture and the Cuban Esperanto Association (KEA), a press release from this institution announces.
Esperanto is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. It was created in 1887 by Polish Luis Lazaro Zamenhof.
His goal was to create an easy to learn and politically neutral language that would serve as a universal second language to foster peace and international understanding.
Esperanto has between 100,000 and two million speakers in about 115 countries, and approximately one thousand native speakers who learned Esperanto as one of their native languages from their parents. Although no country has adopted the language officially, Esperanto was officially recognized by UNESCO in 1954.
The Cuban Esperanto Association was created on June 16, 1979, and it has been affiliated to the World Esperanto Association since 1983.
Cuba hosted the 75th World Esperanto Congress in 1990 and the Sixth Pan American Esperanto Congress in 2004.
Taking place in parallel with these two events will be the 43rd International Conference of Esperanto Teachers, all of them sponsored by the Cuban Ministry of Culture and the Cuban Esperanto Association (KEA), a press release from this institution announces.
Esperanto is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. It was created in 1887 by Polish Luis Lazaro Zamenhof.
His goal was to create an easy to learn and politically neutral language that would serve as a universal second language to foster peace and international understanding.
Esperanto has between 100,000 and two million speakers in about 115 countries, and approximately one thousand native speakers who learned Esperanto as one of their native languages from their parents. Although no country has adopted the language officially, Esperanto was officially recognized by UNESCO in 1954.
The Cuban Esperanto Association was created on June 16, 1979, and it has been affiliated to the World Esperanto Association since 1983.
Cuba hosted the 75th World Esperanto Congress in 1990 and the Sixth Pan American Esperanto Congress in 2004.
Source. groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/
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