The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-08-22

These pronouns can be declined just like
.he nouns. my friend" would be "fen oba."
We may alo say, with possessive adjective,
might be expressed: "ebitopom of ole"
These pronouns, some of them, have plurais:
obs, we; OILS, We; oms, offs, they. Ons is used
you" existing in nearly ali the languages t Of
Europe: listed, Sic, Ella. A curiosity
Is the double form of some of these
double prononns in the plural. For
example, obsa or obas as genitives of obs.
There might, in some cases, be slight shade
of difference. I'VE presented them (the
gentlemen to them (the ladies'" might mean
or separately; and similarly, the ladies might
be considered collectively or distributively.
There would be four combinations:
RbitOpobS Omsi OfSe;
Rbitopobs omis ofes;
@bitopobs omiS ofse;
@bltopobs omsl ofes.
so The numerals numerals are series OF words ct uni mi
same letter. If you notice the vowels you
will see that the list a. e, j. o, u, again helps
the memory:
1 5 8 Z s .
bal, tel, xii. fol- lul, mel, vel, joel, zul.
2 is pronounced likets
Theteus have an $50, balls; 90 tells; 90, zals.
With tum for hundred and mil for thousand
all numbers may be, expressed; 54,&l, lulse-
folmil kiltum telsebal. Bald, first; telid, sec
ond. etc, are the ordinals.
81 think IN those phrases about presenting
gentlemen to ladies you fastened the word for
1Ce right on to the end of the verb, as it WERE"
You have hit It, o bepHkel. The verb con-
on the end and a time-letter at the beginning.
Take the word opakobs, we shall speak. PAX
means speak; obs means we; means future.
O--pak-obs
Shall-speak-we.
When? What act? Performed by whom9
The time-prehxes arc based on our old fa-
miliar list of vowels;
present; imperfect; perfect; pluperfect;
futHre future perfect.
A Is generally omitted as Unnecessary.
Now, these syllables are applied alike to all
verbs Think of a language without irregular
verbs. Binos tn gudik al binPn yelatikl Par
don me, mean, 1t is too good to be true.
''Then suppose bin is to be- or being, or
something like thatT
Esagol velatikol, thou hast said truly.
"Wait q mhtuts; G, perfect; oil, thou; esagol,
thou hast said; velatik, true; % must be -ly."
Right again, 90 makes the adjective into an
adverb.
"Bin9n, however, does not end in either of
the obolon-ofoson syllables."
No; it ought not to have person-ending,
because it is the infnitive simply ito be- in
the abstract. The Danes soliloquy might be
translated:
"Binen u'no bnenP ct binos sekl"
Nevertheless we can introduce the idea of
person Into it. He might have said
"Blnoboen no blnoboen."
Showing that the question related to his
would look at the question rs "binomen II
binomPn," whether he should be or not be-"
TO show the wonderfully plastic character of
the yolaHpkik verb, may, by using the future
perfect sign u, the indefinite or continuous
sign I, and the interrogative II, express in one
word 1.-The question whether l shall after
wards continue to be-
UIBINoBGN-LI?
stands for passive" and prefixing that
letter to any active verb makes it passive
Pen9n, to write; ,papen9n, to be written;
pepenoen, to have been written. Pol9fob.li?
A few other syllables complete the conjuga-
ton of the verb;
-OK, reflective; lefomok, he loves him
LA, conjunctive or conditional; jenosla,
itwould or might happen.
Led, imperative; kGmolGd, comel
les, optatlve; posanomns, may be healed J
Oh, that he may be healed
Gel, participle; pene, writing; enenoel.
having written; popenel. about to be written.
Propositions are placed before the noun,
which remains uninfiected; except whore the
proposition denotes motion or tendency,
which requires the accusation. In CAD, in the
garden On dem Garten in hort0) in gadi, or
mi CAD into the garden lin den Garten, in
hortlln).
Under pronouns / might have spoken of
these demonstratives: at this, ct that, it,
self, etc.; of the relatives, KEEL, who, which,
kis? whatp kiom2 kiofp kiosp which? and
their derivatives, kiplad2 what place, where?
kitm9 what time, when? The possessives add
TX, us, obik, my, pertaining to me; onik, ones.
The adjective always ends in ik-pukik. per-
tanning to language; fomik, formal; Melopik,
America; Flentik, French. I'm is more; an
Is most, Smalikum. smaller; gudikHn, best.
after the noun It describes, as Bepakel gasedilx
binom kopanel gudik. If this position
is changed, then the adjective must take the
same termination as the noun. Openob penedi
datuvele nulitd paka valedik-I shall write a
letter to the inventor of the new universal
language.
gudkNn respeets What's his name and
what's his address? Tell me about him."
JOHANN MARTIN sCHLEYER
resides at Litzelstetten, q village on the banks
of Lake Constance, about four miles from the
city of Constance. He is a Roman Catholic
priest, and his parish embraces Litzelstetten
and the romantic island of Mainau, lying in
the lake Just opposite. His age is fifty-three,
and he has passed the last ten years in this
quiet region upon a stipend of about $500
yearly. He is well known as an author of
sacred poetry and as an editor of several re-
the idea of n scientific, international language,
and determined to study all the principal
languages of the earth, with view of imiIat-
ing all their excelences and avoiding all their
defects. His mind does not appear to have
been SO much occupied with philosophical
analysis of the origins of language or with
comparative philology US with the study OF
ton and expression-studying effects as
produced ON the canvas rather than the chem
ical constitution of the pigments. He made II
minute study of twenty-five languages and
made himself fairly acquainted with as many
more. He is, of course, committed to phonetic
spelling for all languages and hopes to intro
duce his "world.alphabet" (volalafab), which
is an extention of the volapak alphabet This
is sphere in which do not consider him so
successful as in volapak itself. The minute
study of sounds and their representation is
of itself wide enough field for other explor-
ers, and when the alphabet of the future is
adopted shall expect to see it rather of the
type Of Alexander Melville Bells "Visible-
Speech" method Schleyers task Is great
AZ a at SwR Rshad nt Soes nor 9o9
edition of the dictionary contained ten thou
sand words; enough for every day inter
course, and containing the germs OF all other
words which shall be needed But i'll every
number Of the 'VolapAkabled," new expires.
eions ara called for and announced.
l.Then the movement has its orRan2N