Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-02-06
A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE

We learn from an English periodical ths,
certain hngual enthusiast, the Able Bouifac,o
Sotos 0chsndo, Director of the Polytseb, IL
College at Madrid, has invented a universal
lauguase, and has il ready for use AZ
any MOI nent. The Able believes the hu
man race to be still In its infancy, destined to
long ages Of physical and intellectual life,
during Which, time will be given for the Pre-.
posed LANGUAGE 10 become universal Why
not, it is ar, yued, a unity Of language as well
as Of money, weights and measures? But
the Abbe do,ss not contemplate language 10
be spoken every where and by every body
II is to be the particular property Of the sris-
tocracy Of learL ing" mean, he says, "a
language tor SavanS, or understood by all
VINO have received a superior education" To
nave taken one OF TIE present living languages,
WSuld not have answered the purpose mas
much as all its signifcations are arbitrary.
and hence tho scheme Of the Able. Some
idea OF the new language may be gathered
from the following particulars
1.-The alphabet has twenty letters the sams
as In English-h, q, ", X, z, being omitted
The i've vowels remain unaltered, and ali the
letters are pronounced IS in French. except n
which has the sound Of our oe. These ars
represented by characters which remind ms OF
the telegraphic alphabet formerly used in
France, and as none of the types have vet
reached US, we cannot re. produce them here.
Every letter has special signifcation, ac-
cording to its position In the word To give
an example of initials only A initial sisni.
fes always a material thing, unconnected with
vegetable or animal life, E, living body; i
that which concerns man materially; o, thai
which concerns man intellectually and intelli-
gently; L, that which concerns the will: r
instruction and ats analogies; C, mechanical
arts, and their dependencies; D, politics; q.
military arts, and so on.
A HtfIo
are always pOlYsyllables ending With a vowel
and are declined by FIVE cases, placing the
terms la, lie, il, 10, iu before or after the word
AdJsctlVes are always pollysyllables ending
with Il, and declined by the termina alton, a q
j q, u. Plurals of these two are formed hy
adding the letter 8. Verbs are poIlysyIlabIes
ending with ar, er, or, ir, ur; the FIVE yoyels
determine the kind Of verb, and b e,fg,I
moods Ali adyeroS end with c and all nren,
osition are monosyllsbles beginning with a
consonant and ending with vowel. Tbe
coDJunctiOns end with !, and the interiections
with {; ard there ere four articles-sl, eI, N.
al " ~
The following are few extracts from the
Dictionary
"A initial, material thing; ALB initial,
material objects; ABA, initial simple bodies.
gen; Ababi, azote; Ababo. sulphur; Ababu,
selenium; Abacs, telluriun; Abace. chlorine:
hoaci, bromine; Abaco, iodine; Abacu, Au.
orine. And thus it proceeds, with change Of
the penultimste letter. Coming to n, we have
ALBANIA, zinc; Abanc, cadmium; Absni, COP
per; Abano, lead; Abana, bismuth. Ia Is
pointed out that by cutting of the radical
Aba, the final syllable would offer a simple
form Of chemical symbols %
A French editor assures the world that the
new language is "easy, clear, rich. exact,
eminently philosophical; at once aralyticsI
and synthetical; very varied and only child's
play for the memory"
Before the new language goes into opera.
ton, some successful system Of Mnemopic.
must be invented To learn an artificial Ian
suage' we must hrst have an artificial memory.