| Show J I Z01APi JC HAH A UnAI I nSPlnANTO IS 1 THE NAME OF A NaW LANCUAa I Is Opel n h7 10000 Irrensturtgtnsted tn Itasla 505 II IDmII11 at nrto to Aecoellee IImpla Itoiee t I Clrntln 1 ID tsee I 1 o Bi1lttNTO la T I r not thus name of anew I r 1 a-new liqueur or of n j V new appetizer nor I newt I that of n popular 11 comle tong but It 1 f I b 7J i Is I the name of an i 1 nrllflclal language which II I fait gainIng 1e i gain-Ing adherent In I 0s France and that la I already able to loath ot many followers In Itutila let many Kngland Norway Sweden Italy Spain the United State and even In dome pert of Africa Among the moat proficient In Iho language he I a 1 Frenchman bearing thin aristocratic name of DKywautlcr Ho soya that KppTnnlo le by no mean anew a-new language 1 nor even n recent illicot try Title Inlernutlonnl languago baa I ben In oxlitenco nearly ten year and there are at least ten thousand nduer em In different part of the world I The author or originator of lUper I ante Ia I a RiiMlan gentleman Dr Zn mcnhof of Warsaw Ho rail It a toil I venal language Ito I says that oar may i I learn ltd grammar In an hour and all It voeilmlir of words In n few diy I Max Muller write it with the great I eat ease and m doe Tolatol who 15 I one of the lending contributor to the offlclal organ of the language the Ht peranllalo vhlrh by the way la I utterly I ut-terly oppoaml the Volapuk organ for It has literary tendencies The fact Is l Kipernnto hope to dethrone de-throne Volapuk altogether Verses may lie I written In 1t and tranilatlon I of the Illnl and Hamlet lawn been pub llnhed TIll new language which mean Iho person who hope Is I per hnpi letter known In Iluula than In any other country Until III I ha birthplace birth-place Llko all artificial nnhrerssl language tho roots of Kperanto nrn derived from thin best known of modern tongue KnglUh French and flerman theiw of ferine Ibo leant dimculty to itudcntn A 1 a root Indicating Ihe action of loving lov-ing the syllable am has been adopted adopt-ed Now should < I ono wish to make n autMtnnllto and obtain Iho word love In French amour ono bRA but to add the letter o Ihu obtaining the word nmo Tills is I an absolute rule 10 obtain a substantive from n circus root add < l tho letter o Nothing 15 I I nosier In a ilmllar manner to obtain an aj Jtctlva from n given root ono has but to add an a InitcrU of an o and thus this word amorous IIn French amoitroux become aura In K per auto And this ruin for forming ad Jrctlm bu na exception Add tho let a to hue root and the ajjecllvo Is form I Verbs pro obtained 1 In quite ai easy a fashion The present tenon demand but the addition ot two tettcri lo the root as Tho host ii I formed by placing plac-ing Ihn letter 1 Is I alter the root and Ihn future by the addition 1 of ot Them termination are Invariable The preient pal future and other tenses ore nlwnR obtainable In thin imo easy fashion by the addition of n couple ot letter lo the root I The grammar of the now language la I eaiy and nlmoit ai ilmplo aa floe formation forma-tion of tho vocabulary Thcro are very few rulea In this entire book of grammar gram-mar and what li moil Important there are no excepllona to any of Ibo rule Tho Volapuk language Is I very ilml lar to Iipcranto Hut wo do not hear much of Yolapnk nowadays As to this n Volapuk authority says I It ahould not bo imagined that be cauio the Volapuk propaganda hna ceaaed and that bicaiiM at Ibo present time there am no more Mbool ud lecture that the Volapuk language U I Interred forever It It were to one would have Home cause for raying that It baa become n dead language before ever having been a living one Hut tech is I not the tIny t-Iny French people at the present they who know no other language but Vola their own are corresponding In puk with Amerlran Japanese flue ilant and Turk lla practical rcmilt are inmelrntly conclusive In Ibo Im menio eorreepondenro exchanged Internationally Inter-nationally The pirtliana of Esperanto may pomlldy obtain Ibo same result Hut that only liON to prove that the very principle of a unlvenal language has robbing chimerical nbnut It I The language utilized communlca I lion between semaphores la I understood under-stood by captain at sea whatever bo their nationality It any foreign hlp arrive outside a French port and the captain tee the Inverted cone he will know at onro that a torn li I expected In hula study of Iho language of semaphores sema-phores and lighthouses ho never nban I doused his own tongue With Volapuk and Esperanto mattcra oro much the carne A man may atudy both and be fluent with I both without dropping hi own natural lb language I It re < ms at present that Volapuk or Ibperanto may be utlllzeil cxtcnilvcly In commercial tclentlflc and other communication com-munication |
