Christmas: a good time to broach a topic of hope. We’re talking Esperanto. This language that spurred the hope it one day could hack the barriers between people, eliminating war and miscommunication.

As the community of Esperanto speakers prepares to mark the 150th anniversary of its author's birth, the BBC's Dina Newman looks at the continuing appeal of this language designed to foster harmony ...

An Esperanto teacher instructs a class in a room with a painting of the language's creator on the wall. Janek Skarzynski/AFP via Getty Images The promise of peace through a shared language has not yet ...

Young Esperanto speakers are in Cardiff for their first meeting in Wales to discuss interest in the language. Esperanto Youth of Britain members hope the visit to the city known to locals as "Kairdiff ...

People are pictured studying Esperanto in the library of the Chateau de Gresillon in Saint-Martin-d'Arce, France Frank Perry/AFP When an obscure Polish Jewish eye-doctor, Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof, ...