Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof, (
1859-
1917),
Polish ophthalmologist
? and philologist
? and inventor -- or, as he would prefer, initiator -- of
Esperanto, the most widely spoken
artificial language to date. His native language was
Russian, but he also spoke
Polish and
German fluently. Later he learned
French,
Latin,
Greek,
Hebrew and
English, but he also had an interest for
Yiddish,
Italian,
Spanish and Lithuanian
?.
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