Fundamenta Krestomatio

Fundamenta Krestomatio

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Title: Fundamenta Krestomatio
Author: L. Zamenhof
Release Date: June, 2005 [EBook #8224] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on July 3, 2003]
Edition: 10
Language: Esperanto
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:
The Esperanto alphabet contains 28 characters. These are the characters of English, but with "q", "w", "x", and "y" removed, and six diacritical letters added. The diacritical letters are "c", "g", "h", "j" and "s" with circumflexes (or "hats", as Esperantists fondly call them), and "u" with a breve. Zamenhof himself suggested that where the diacritical letters caused difficulty, one could instead use "ch", "gh", "hh", "jh", "sh" and "u". A plain ASCII file is one such place; there are no ASCII codes for Esperanto's special letters.
However, there are two problems with Zamenhof's "h-method". There is no difference between "u" and "u" with a breve, and there is no way to determine (without prior knowledge of the word(s) involved, and sometimes a bit of context) whether an "h" following one of those other five letters is really the second half of a diacritical pair, or just an "h" that happened to find itself next to one of them. Consequently other, unambiguous, methods have been used over the years. One is the "x-method", which uses the digraphs "cx", "gx", "hx", "jx", "sx" and "ux" to represent the special letters. There is no ambiguity because the letter "x" is not an Esperanto letter, and each diacritical letter has a unique transliteration. This is the method used in this Project Gutenberg e-text.
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L. ZAMENHOF
FUNDAMENTA KRESTOMATIO DE LA LINGVO ESPERANTO
DUA ELDONO
FRANCUJO.--HACHETTE et Cie, PARIS. ANGLUJO.--"REVIEW of REVIEWS", LONDON. DANUJO.--ANDR.-FRED. HOEST & SOEN, KJOBENHAVN. GERMANUJO.--MOELLER & BOREL, BELIN. HISPANUJO.--J. ESPASA, BARCELONA. ITALUJO.--RAFFAELLO GIUSTI, LIVORNO. POLUJO.--M. ARCT, WARSZAWA. SVEDUJO.--ESPERANTOFOERENING, STOCKHOLM
Estas mendeblaj :
CXE LA LIBREJO HACHETTE KAJ K-o
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TUTMONDA JARLIBRO ESPERANTISTA : 1905 enhavanta la Adresarojn de Dro ZAMENHOF Unu volumo 432 pagxa. . . . . . . . 2 fr. 50
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INTERNACIA SCIENCA REVUO En Esperanto
REDAKCIO ADMINISTRACIO : P. FRUICTIER HACHETTE & K-o 27, boulevard Arago, 79, boulevard Saint-Germain, PARIS PARIS
JARA ABONKOSTO Francujo. . . . . . . 3 fr. 50 | Ceteraj landoj. . . . . 7 fr. UNU NUMERO : 60 centimoj.
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Baldaux aperos :
GRANDA VORTARO FRANCA-ESPERANTA
Tiu verko, tiel longe atendita, estos grava cxefverko, kiun cxiu Esperantisto devos posedi! Gxia kosto ne superos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 frankojn.
Specimenoj kaj cirkuleroj estos baldaux senditaj. Ni rememorigas ke la firmo Hachette kaj K-o estas sole rajtigata eldoni verkojn aprobitajn de la auxtoro de la lingvo, Dro Zamenhof
1432-05.--Coulommiers. Imp. PAUL BRODARD.--12-05.
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ANTAUXPAROLO
Prezentante pure kondicxan rimedon de reciproka komunikigxado, la lingvo internacia, simile al cxiu lingvo nacia, povos bone atingi sian celon nur en tiu okazo, se cxiuj uzos gxin plene egale; kaj por ke cxiuj povu uzi la lingvon egale, estas necese, ke ekzistu iaj modeloj, legxdonaj por cxiuj. Tio cxi estas la kauxzo, pro kiu, cedante al la peto de multaj esperantistoj, mi eldonis la Fundamentan Krestomation, kiu povos servi al cxiuj kiel modelo de esperanta stilo kaj gardi la lingvon de pereiga disfalo je diversaj dialektoj.
Lerni la lingvon cxiu povas laux cxiuj libroj, kiujn li deziros; sed cxar multaj esperantaj libroj estas verkitaj de personoj, kiuj ankoraux ne posedas bone la lingvon Esperanto, kaj komencanta esperantisto ne povus rilati al ili suficxe kritike, tial estas dezirinde, ke cxiu, antaux ol komenci la legadon de la esperanta literaturo, tralegu atente la Fundamentan Krestomation. Ne deprenante de la lernanto la eblon kritike proprigi al si cxiujn ricxigojn kaj regule faritajn perfektigojn, kiujn li trovas