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The following is the full English text of the 15-page pamphlet, which includes the same text in French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese in addition to Arabic. The pamphlet, published by Universal Esperanto Association, is undated.
We, members of the worldwide movement for the promotion of Esperanto, credit this manifesto to any governments, international organizations and people of advantage will; declare our unshakable commitment to the objectives nature out here; and invite each and every organization and individual to join us in our effort.
Launched in 1887 as a project for an auxiliary language for international communication and quickly developed into a rich alive language in its own right, Esperanto has worked for more than a century to connect people across language and culture barriers. Meanwhile, the objectives of its speakers defecate not lost importance or relevance. Neither the worldwide usage of a few national languages, nor advances in communications technology, nor the developing of new methods of language instruction will likely create the coming after or as a result of. principles, which we consider necessary for just and powerful language order.
A communication system which privileges some people but requires of others that they invest years of attempt in an arrangement of parts or elements in a particular form figure or combination. to attain a lesser measure of competency is fundamentally undemocratic. Although, like all language, Esperanto is non perfect, it greatly exceeds all rivals in the sphere of equitable global communication.
We assert that language inequality entails inequality of communication at all levels, including the international level. We are a movement for democratic communication.
Any ethnic language is linked to aculture and nation or multiple of nations. For example, the student who studies English learns about the culture, geography and politics of the English-speaking world, primary the United States and United Kingdom. The student who studies Esperanto learns about a world without limits, in which every country is like a home.
We assert that the education of any ethnic language is linked to a particular worldview. We are a movement for transnational education.
Only a small percentage of those who discussing a foreign language begin to master it. Full apprehension of Esperanto is achievable within a month of study. Various studies have ascribed propaedeutic effects to the examine of other languages. One also recommends Esperanto as a core factor in courses for the linguistic sensitization of students.
We assert that the difficulty of the ethnic languages always will submission obstacles to numerous students, who nevertheless would profit from the cognition of alanguage. We are a movement for effective language instruction.
The Esperanto community is one of the few worldwide linguistic communities whose members are, without exception, bi- or multilingual. each member of the community accepted the task of learning at least one foreign language to a communicative degree. In multiple cases this leads to the knowledge and love of several languages and generally to broader personal horizons.
We assert that the speakers of all languages, large and small, should have a real opportunity to learn alanguage to a high communicative level. We are a movement for the provision of that opportunity.
The unequal distribution of power between languages is a recipe for permanent language insecurity, or straightforward linguistic suppression, in a large element of the world's population. In the Esperanto community, the speakers of a language, large or small, official or nonofficial, meet on neutral terms, thanks to a reciprocated will to compromise. This equilibrium between linguistic rights and responsibilities offers a precedent for development and evaluating other solutions to language inequalities and conflict.
We assert that the vast variations in power to direct or build among languages undermines the guarantees, expressed in so numerous international documents, of make up treatment without discrimination of languages. We are a movement for linguistic rights.
The national governments tend to consider the grand diversification of world languages as barriers to communication and development. For the Esperanto community, however, linguistic diversity is a fixed and indispensable credit of enrichment. Therefore, every language, like every well thing, is inherently valuable and worthy of security measure and support.
We assert that policies of communication and development, if not based on respect and guide for all languages, condemn to extinction the majority of the word's languages. We are a movement for linguistic diversity.
Every language liberates and imprisons its speakers, giving to them the power toamong themselves while barring them from communication with others. indicated as a universal communications tool, Esperanto is one of the largest functioning projects of human emancipation or projects to authorises every human to participate as an individual in the human community, with secure roots in their local culture and linguistic identity, while not being limited by it.
We assert that the exclusive ownership of national languages inevitably raises barriers to the freedoms of expression, communication, and association. We are a movement for human emancipation.