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Esperanto

Esperanto, ehs puh RAHN toh, is the most widely used international language. L. L. Zamenhof, a Polish physician, devised Esperanto. He published a book about the language, Lingvo Internacia (1887), under the pen name Dr. Esperanto. The word esperanto means one who hopes in that language.

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