The Interim Republic reinstates the language as it welcomes new citizens.
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Matthæus-cum-Septen upon Blythe, 30 May 2020 — The Commission of Statute on Interim Matsian Governance has re-designated Esperanto as an official language of Matsia, a status it lost after the departure of the citizen known as XO.
The reinstatement came as the Interim Republic of Matsia welcomed its first new citizens following the federal government’s first post-XO recruitment drive, and has been warmly received by them. Esperanto — literally “one who hopes” — was devised by the Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof, who published his first brochure in the language in 1887 in the hope that it might become a second language for all; it has a simple, exception-free grammar and a vocabulary drawn chiefly from the Romance languages, and to a lesser degree from Germanic and Slavic ones.
Esperanto’s official status had been withdrawn after XO’s departure, when the National Convention of 2019 sought to strip out potentially controversial aspects of Matsian policy, particularly those touching on LGBT matters. The removal had not been intended to extend to Esperanto, but until now the government had seen no occasion to restore it.
Edited for the relaunch of the Courant van Lazia.
