Mark Zamenhof Mark Zamenhof Mark Zamenhof (was born January 27, 1837 in Suwałki, died November 29, 1907 in Warsaw) is Esperanto form of Markus Fabianoviĉ Samenhof, "Christian" or goja name of Mordeĥaj Zamenhof, son of Fabian Zamenhof and father of L. L. Zamenhof (the creator of Esperanto); teacher of languages French and German. Knight of many orders. Descriptive analysis of the official documents allowed to ascertain that Mordka Zamenhof officially altered his name in Marek and postmortem the name of his father Fajwel to Fabian, what officially was lodged April 20, 1871, marginally of the earlier birth-certificate of Fejgla. Some unknown facts
Comparison between Ido and Interlingua Comparison between Ido and Interlingua Ido and Interlingua are two constructed languages created in the 20th century. Both have had some measure of success, but Interlingua has enjoyed greater diffusion and acceptance by public and private institutions—it is taught in many high schools and universities, for example. Ido is what is called "schematic" (easier to learn for speakers of very different languages), whereas Interlingua is what is called "naturalistic" (easier to understand for speakers of related languages). While both languages have a majority of Latin/Romance words in their lexicons, Ido has a somewhat larger number of Germanic and Slavic words,