Download or read book Esperanto and Its Rivals written by Roberto Garvía Soto and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roberto Garvía explores the history of artificial spoken or written languages and the people who fought for them. Taking the three most prominent—Volapük, Esperanto, and Ido—Garvía investigates what drove so many to invest incredible energy and time to learn and promote them.