The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-05


With tum for hundred and mil for thousand
all numbers may be expressed; 81 81, 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
tce right on to the end of the verb, as it were"
You have hit it, o bepakel. The verb con-
sists generally of root with pronoun glued
on the end and a time-letter at the beginning.
Take the word opakobs, we shall speak. PAX
means speak; obs means we; o means future.
Shall-speak-we
When? What act2 Performed by whom?
The time-prefiXes are based on our old ia
miliar list of vowels:
present; imperfect: perfect; pluperfect;
future: future perfect.
A is generally omitted as unnecessary.
Now, these syllables are applied alike to all
verbs Think of language without irregular
verbs. Binos tn gudik al binoen yelatik! Par
don me, mean, it is too good to be true.
THEN ! suppose bin is to be, or being, or
something like thatl''
Esagol velatikol. thou hast said truly.
Wait minute; e. perfect; Of. 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 il is the infinitive simply ito be- in
the abstract. The Danes soliloquy might be
"Binen u no binen2 ct binos sekr'
Nevertheless We can introduce the idea of
person into it. He might have said:
"Binob9n u no binob9n.'
Showing that the question related to his
O,cn being or not being. Another person
would look at the question as "binom9n u
binomRn," whether he should be or not be. :"
To show the wonderfully plastic character of
the volagpkik verb, may, by using the future
perfect sign u, the indefinite or continuous
sign I, and the interrogative Ii, express in one
word "the question whether l shall after
wards continue to be-
UIBINoBGN-LI?
P stands for passive" and prefixing that
letter to any active verb makes it passive.
Penoen, to write; pspen9n. to be written;
pepenGn, to have been written. Poloefob-li?
A few other syllables complete the conjuga-
ton of the verb:
ok, reflective; loefomok. he loves him
| LA, conjunctive or conditional; jenos-l la,
! it would or might happen.
Led, Imperative: kPmOlOed, cOmel
--ES, optative: posanomRs, may be healed /!
Oh, that he may be healed!
--(EL participle: pence, writing: enenoel.
! having written; popenoel. about to be written.
Propositions are placed before the noun.
] which remains unaffected; except where the
proposition denotes motion or tendency,
| which requires the accusation. In CAD, in the
garden lin dem Garten, in hortO), in gadi, or
I'M CAD into the garden Din den Garten, in
! hortum).
Under pronouns i might have spoken of
these demonstratives: at, this Ell, that, it,
self, etc.; of the relatives KEEL, who, which,
that; of the interrogatives, kim! kif? who2
ks? what? kiom? kiof? kios? which? and
| their derivatives, kiplad? what place. where2
kitim? what time, wheng The possessives add
tx. as. obik, my, pertaining to me; onik, ones.
The adjective always ends in ik-pHkik, per-
| tanning to language: fomik, formal; Melopik,
America; Flentik, French. Um is more; an
IS most. smalikum. smaller; gudikan. best.
The adjective usually comes Immediately
after the noun it describes, as BepHkel gasedik
bnSn k9Psns gsd this PSstSSn
same termination as the noun. Openob penedi
datuvele nulitd pHka valedik-I shall write IA
letter to the inventor of the new universal
language.
"Well when you write to him give him my
gudikHn respects! What's his name and
what's his address? Tell me about him.
JOHANN MARTIN SCHLEYER
resides at Litzelstetten, a 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 tifty-tnree.
and he has passed the last ten years in this
quiet region upon stipend of about 500
yearly. He is well known as an author Of
sacred poetry and as an editor of several re-
ligious periodicals. For years he cherished
the idea of a scientific, international language
and determined to study all the principal
languages of the earth, with a view of imitat-
ing all their excellences 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 as with the study of
| language as a practical means of communica-
ton and expression-studying effects as
produced on the canvas rather than the chem
ical constitution of the pigments. He made a
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 volapHk alphabet This
successful as in volapak itself. The minute
study of sounds and their representation is
of itself a 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 Schleyer's task is great
enough in his own sphere. He does not con-
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 he needed BIN in every
number of the "VolapHkabied," new express
siOns are called for and announced.
Then the movement has its oryanT'
Yes; no movement in this century Is "or
ganiZcd' until it has its Organ" The month
~ periodical "VolapHkabled" has just begun
its fifth year, and has doubled its size. 1t now
contains eight handsomely printed pages Of
Ii is mostly in double columns, one side in
volapAk and the otheS in German, or occa-
sionally some other language, as where Pro.
Jvab tSchwabl contributes some English
proverbs with volapHk TRANSACTIONS; and
Schleyer gives in the January number inter-
esting specimens of the language of the
Dakota Indians and their vp equivalents. /
notice among the Dakota word, mini" vat,
water, which recalls Longfellow and Mime
haha.
Though strenuous for the unity of the idea,
Father Schleyer is open to improvements and
suggestions The months. for example. were
called Yanul, Febul, Setul Otul, ETC.,
adaptations of the Roman Januarius, Febru-
arius. September. October, etc,
with the termination -ul correspond ng TO mul,
month. / suggested that these names were
unscientific: that Babul. Telul, kilul etc,
would be more logical, would not offend the
Quakers, would facilitate calculation of time
by their numerical character, and no two
would begin with the same letter, SO that alb
breviation would be distinct and inconfusible.
Schleyer promptly accepted this suggestion,
laid it before the volapRkatidels and chiefs of
sections, and. with their approval, these names
are given in the latest dictionary along with
the Roman ones. Then Bernhaupt, Of Beiru,
Asia Minor, proposed to extend the same prin-
ciple to the days of the week. substituting
balidel, telidel, kilidel, for Soldel, Mundel,
Tusdel, del being day: This, too. win proba-
morrow" were tas nounsl designated by "tu-
de, !" 'yesdel' and model" but notice that
in the new dictionary more logical forms are
m 81 he toms oAya