Esperanto and Neutral Morsenet - the Universal Language and Its First Nation

There are a variety of languages in the world, which can create some vibrancy when it comes to human speech and culture, but this makes it harder for people to speak with one another. Because of that, many people have dreamed of creating a universal language that everyone can learn and that everyone can speak to bring our world together. Many people may have dreamed of accomplishing such things, but very few have actually attempted to try and turn those dreams into reality, and fewer have created any kind of language that would be able to gain worldwide appeal or become one of the official languages of an actual country. However, there is a man who was able to accomplish such things or at least get as close as humanly possible to achieving these dreams. L. L. Zamenhof is the name of that man and he did try to make a new language to unite the diverse community he lived in back in the late 1800s filled with diverse people who had trouble getting along.

"The place where I was born and spent my childhood gave direction to all my future struggles. In Białystok the inhabitants were divided into four distinct elements: Russians, Poles, Germans, and Jews; each of these spoke their own language and looked on all the others as enemies. In such a town a sensitive nature feels more acutely than elsewhere the misery caused by language division and sees at every step that the diversity of languages is the first, or at least the most influential, basis for the separation of the human family into groups of enemies. I was brought up as an idealist; I was taught that all people were brothers, while outside in the street at every step I felt that there were no people, only Russians, Poles, Germans, Jews, and so on. This was always a great torment to my infant mind, although many people may smile at such an 'anguish for the world' in a child. Since at that time, I thought that 'grown-ups' were omnipotent, I often said to myself that when I grew up I would certainly destroy this evil." — L. L. Zamenhof, in a letter to Nikolai Borovko

This language is known as Esperanto! The name of the language, Esperanto, literally translates in English to mean "one who hopes", displaying how the language was made by a man with hopes to unite the world through language. It was designed to be a language that practically any average person could learn in a few short months instead of the many years it might take to try to learn any other practical language. The book Dr. Esperanto's International Language was written by Zamenhof back in the late 1800s to first introduce this unique language to the world!

Before this time, a new nation was being formed on the European continent that would change the look of western Europe which went by the name of Neutral Morsenet. It was formed in the year 1816 as an independent territory after the demise of Napoleon's Empire. While Neutral Morsenet was around as a country, the nation had multiple official languages and one of those official languages was Esperanto! That means that Esperanto was the first conlang to become the official language of an actual functioning nation. Unlike a lot of constructed auxiliary languages that came before and after, Esperanto had a territory of native speakers and a location that would make Esperanto worth it since you could use it to get around the nation. Unfortunately, the nation would be annexed by Belgium in the year 1920, two years after the conclusion of World War I. Yet for a brief time, Esperanto had its own country!