希望語
Chinese
hope; wish; hope | speech; language; dialect speech; language; dialect; tell to | ||
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trad. (希望語) | 希望 | 語 | |
simp. (希望语) | 希望 | 语 | |
Literally: “language of hopes”. |
Etymology
From Esperanto esperanto (“one who hopes”) + 語/语 (yǔ, “language, speech”), to avoid confusion about the more popular name of the artificial language called 世界語/世界语 (shìjièyǔ, “world's language”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
希望語
- (rare) Esperanto (language)