Hello,

I'm looking for documentation on a dialect of Esperanto, called Universal. I'd like to learn Universal before I learn Esperanto, however, I can't find a single grammar book or dictionary when googling. My hunch is that something is probably published in Esperanto.

Could you please google Universal using Esperanto terms and see if there's any PDF grammar book or dictionary available, or a website even?

Also, what do you make of this Wikipedia source from the article titled, Universal (Esperantido)? Is it written in Esperanto? or is it Polish perhaps?
What does it say?

L I Vasilevskij (1925), Neizvestnaja stranica v istorii otechestvennnoj interlingvistiki—jazyk Universal, in M I Isaev et al. (eds.), Problemy interlingvistiki: Tipologija i êvoljucija mezhdunarodnyx iskusstvennyx jazykov. Moscow: Nauka, 1976.

I really like the intuitiveness of Universal, that is, what little is said about it in the Wikipedia article. The Universal language seems non-Eurocentric to me, and more expressive than Esperanto. I'm really eager to jump in and start learning.

According to the external webpage linked off the Wikipedia article, nothing more was published on Universal (as of the time of that page). There have been bucket loads of esperantidoj, none of which has ever gone anywhere except partially for Ido, which still has a few diehard users and a partially active internet mailing list. Except as a hobby interest for archaic constructed languages generally, it would probably (in my estimation) be a waste of time to pursue something that never had any real use. History is replete with failed auxiliary language projects, most of which were never developed beyond a sketch.