Ŝ or ŝ (S circumflex) is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing a voiceless postalveolar fricative (either palato-alveolar or retroflex); that is, either IPA: [ʃ] or [ʂ]. is by far the most widely spoken constructed International auxiliary language in the world Esperanto is a constructed auxiliary language. A highly regular grammar makes Esperanto much easier to learn than most other languages of the world though The creator of Esperanto, L L Zamenhof, did not specify phonemic-phonetic correspondences for his language Esperanto is written in a Latin alphabet of twenty-eight letters with upper and lower case The word base of Esperanto was originally defined by Lingvo internacia published by Zamenhof in 1887 Esperanto Vocabulary and grammatical forms derive primarily from the Romance languages, with lesser contributions from Germanic. The constructed International auxiliary language Esperanto was developed in the 1870s and 80s by L Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof (ˈzɑːmɨnhɒf in English born Eliezer Samenhof December 15 1859 &ndash April 14 1917 was an ophthalmologist, Philologist Proto-Esperanto (or pra-Esperanto in the language itself is the modern term for any of the stages in the evolution of L The Unua Libro ( First Book) was the first publication to describe the international language Esperanto (then called Lingvo Internacia, "international The Declaration of Boulogne ( Bulonja Deklaracio) was a document written by L The Fundamento de Esperanto ("Foundation of Esperanto" is a book by L The Montevideo Resolution is the common name for Resolution IV The Prague Manifesto (or Manifesto de Prago) is a set of seven widely-shared principles of the Esperanto movement The language Esperanto is often used to access an international Culture, including a large body of original as well as translated literature. An Esperantist is a person who speaks or uses Esperanto. Etymologically an Esperantist is someone who hopes Esperantujo or Esperantio is a term (meaning "Esperantoland" used by speakers of the constructed international auxiliary language Esperanto Feature films There are four Feature films known to have been shot exclusively in the Constructed language Esperanto. "La Espero" ("The Hope" is a poem written by L The following Esperanto libraries and collections of works in the Esperanto language are worthy of note The Montagu Butler Library of Esperanto materials Esperanto literature began before the official publication of the Constructed language Esperanto; the language's creator L Esperanto music is Music written recorded and performed in Esperanto, a Constructed language used for international Communication. Native Esperanto speakers (in Esperanto denaskuloj) are born into families in which Esperanto (and usually other languages is spoken References to Esperanto, a Constructed language, have been made in a number of films and novels Since the earliest days of Esperanto, the colour Green has been used as a symbol of mutual recognition and it appears prominently in all Esperanto symbols Zamenhof Day ( Zamenhofa Tago in Esperanto) is celebrated on December 15, the Birthday of Esperanto creator L This is a list of Esperanto organizations World Esperanto Association World Esperanto Association ( Universala Esperanto-Asocio or UEA - Site Summer School The Australian Esperanto Association (AEA hosts a summer school of the International language Esperanto for one or two weeks each year The Esperanto Association of Britain (EAB is a registered educational charity whose objective is to advance the education of the public in the International language Junularo Esperantista Brita (JEB is the organisation for young Esperanto-speakers in the United Kingdom. SATEB (Workers’ Esperanto Movement is the British affiliate of the non-nationalist world organisation SAT ( Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda) which is a world-wide worker movement The Canadian Esperanto Association ( Kanada Esperanto-Asocio in Esperanto or KEA is a registered educational charity whose objective is to advance the education The Quebec Esperanto Society (in Esperanto Esperanto-Societo Kebekia; in French Société québécoise d'espéranto) is the main association The Esperanto League for North America d/b/a Esperanto-USA, or E-USA, is the main organization of speakers and supporters of the international language Esperanto This is a list of Esperanto organizations World Esperanto Association World Esperanto Association ( Universala Esperanto-Asocio or UEA - Site Amikeca Reto ('Friendship Network' is a directory of people around the world who do not necessarily want to host other Esperanto speakers but want to work together and exchange The Akademio de Esperanto (Academy of Esperanto is an independent body intended to control the evolution of the language Esperanto by keeping it consistent with the Encyclopedia of Esperanto may refer to three different attempts of creating an encyclopedia of all Esperanto topics The Pasporta Servo ( Passport Service) is a Hospitality service for speakers of the language Esperanto. The Breton village of Plouézec (in French) or Ploueg-ar-Mor (in Breton) has hosted an International Meeting annually since 1997 TEJO is the Tutmonda Esperantista Junulara Organizo, or World Esperanto Youth Organization. The World Esperanto Association (in Esperanto UEA: Universala Esperanto-Asocio) is the largest international organization of Esperanto speakers Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda ( SAT; in English World Anational Non-National Association) is an independent worldwide cultural Esperanto association of a The World Congress of Esperanto (in Esperanto Universala Kongreso de Esperanto) has the longest tradition among international Esperanto conventions with The International Youth Congress of Esperanto or Internacia Junulara Kongreso is the biggest annual meeting of young esperantists in the world and participants usually number The Esperanto Congress of the Americas (in Esperanto Tut-Amerika Kongreso de Esperanto or TAKE was begun as an irregular meeting of Esperanto speakers in the Americas The Skolta Esperanto Ligo brings together Esperanto speaking Scouts from all over the world Esperantido is the term used within the Esperanto and Constructed language communities to describe a language project based on or inspired by Esperanto The propaedeutic value of Esperanto is the benefit that using Esperanto as an introduction to foreign language study has on the teaching of subsequent foreign languages Reformed Esperanto was a reformed version of Esperanto created in 1894 This article attempts to highlight the main differences between Esperanto and Ido, two Constructed languages that have a related past but have since parted Esperanto and Interlingua are two planned languages which have taken radically different approaches to the problem of providing an International auxiliary language Alphabet and Pronunciation Both Esperanto and Novial are written using versions of the Latin alphabet. An international auxiliary language (sometimes abbreviated as IAL or auxlang) or interlanguage is a Language meant for communication between people from A constructed or artificial language known colloquially or informally as a conlang is a Language whose Phonology, Grammar Ido (ˈiːdoʊ is a Constructed language created with the goal of becoming a universal second language for speakers of different linguistic backgrounds as a language easier Interlingua is an International auxiliary language (IAL developed between 1937 and 1951 by the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA Novial ("new" + ''IAL International Auxiliary Language'' is a constructed International auxiliary language (IAL intended to facilitate international Volapük (volaˈpyk or ˈvɒləpʊk in English is a Constructed language, created in 1879-1880 by Johann Martin Schleyer, a Roman Catholic priest Signuno, or Signed Exact Esperanto, is a manual encoding of Esperanto proposed by an anonymous author with Gestuno roots modified for Esperanto morphology Anationalism (Esperanto sennaciismo is a term originating from the community of Esperanto speakers Pitch The circumflex accent was first used in the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek, where it occurred (subject to certain rules on the accented syllable In Articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a Speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the upper Vocal tract, the upper vocal Esperanto is written in a Latin alphabet of twenty-eight letters with upper and lower case The voiceless palato-alveolar fricative or domed postalveolar fricative ( IPA) is a type of Consonantal sound used in some spoken Languages Postalveolar consonants are Consonants articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the Alveolar ridge, placing them a bit further back in the In Phonetics, retroflex consonants are Consonant sounds used in some Languages (They are sometimes referred to as cerebral consonants
Esperanto orthography uses a diacritic for all four of its postalveolar consonants, as do the Latin-based Slavic alphabets. A diacritic ( also called a diacritic or diacritical mark, point, or sign, is a small sign added to a letter to alter pronunciation The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages) a group of closely related Languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages Letters and digraphs that are similar to ŝ and represent the same sound include Slovene and Croatian š and English sh. A digraph, bigraph, or digram is a pair of characters used to write one Phoneme (distinct sound or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond Slovene or Slovenian ( slovenski jezik or slovenščina, not to be confused with Slovenčina) is a South Slavic language Croatian language ( hrvatski jezik) is a South Slavic language which is used primarily in Croatia, by Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina in neighbouring English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States
It is used in ISO 9:1995 (standard of transliteration into Latin characters of Cyrillic characters) for letter Щ. The International standard ISO 9 establishes a system for the Transliteration into Latin characters of Cyrillic characters constituting the alphabets Shcha or Shta (Щ щ italics Щ щ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, historically representing
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