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 language, 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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