- Title
- Nowruz in Media in Artificial Auxiliary Languages
- Creator
- Libert, Alan Reed
- Relation
- 4th International Nowruz Conference on Scientific Research. 4th International Nowruz Conference on Scientific Research: The Book of Full Texts: Volume-1 (Karabagh, Azerbaijan 18-21 March, 2021) p. 51-56
- Relation
- https://www.iksadsummit.com/kitaplar
- Publisher
- ISPEC Publications
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Nowruz is very important in countries such as Azerbaijan and Iran, but not well known in the most countries in Europe and the Americas. One would therefore not expect it to receive much attention in media and works in artificial auxiliary languages such as Esperanto (i.e. languages which have been created to facilitate international communication), since most such languages have been created by inhabitants of these countries. On the other hand, since designers and users of such languages generally have an international outlook, it would not be too surprising if mentions or descriptions of Nowruz did sometimes occur in them. In this paper I will discuss appearances of Nowruz (or lack of them) in such languages. One might first note the apparent total absence of references to Nowruz in major auxiliary languages other than Esperanto, e.g. in Volapük, Ido, and Interlingua. This can be explained by the fact that the heyday of these languages was before the current era of globalization, and knowledge of some less familiar countries and cultures was limited. In contrast, Nowruz occasionally appears in non-fiction in Esperanto, and in at least one work of fiction in that language, Ne eblas aplaŭdi unumane ('One cannot Applaud with One Hand') by Sten Johansson. The bulk of this paper will be a discussion of such occurrences.
- Subject
- Nowruz; artificial languages; Esperanto
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1450043
- Identifier
- uon:43814
- Identifier
- ISBN:9786257636308
- Language
- eng
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