The Osceola times., 1885-06-20

gentlemen TO ladies you fastened the word for
ue right on 70 the end OF the verb. as 1t were"
ou nave bit It 0 bcpHkel. The verb con-
sists generally of a root with pronoun glued
on the end and a tme-letter at the beginning
rake the word opukohs, we shall speak PAX
means speak; obs means we: means future
O.-pak-obs
Shal-speak-we.
w henI what act! Performed by wbom9
Ihe time-pretxes are based on our old IA
miliar list OF vowels;
present; imperfect; perfect; pluperfect;
future; future perfect.
A Ia generally omitted as unnecessary
Now, these sylables are appl ed alike to all
verbs. Think of a language without irregular
verbs. Bnos tn gudIk al binmn velatik, Par
don me, mean. II is too good TO be true.
Then | suppose bin is To be, or being or
something Ike thatr'
Esagol velatikol, thou hast said truly.
wait a minute; Q, perfect; oi. thou; esagol
Right again, 'o' makes the adjecuve into an
advcrb
"BnGn, however does not end in either of
the oboon-ofoson syllables"
No; IL ought not to have a person ending,
because II is the iniinitive. simply ito be in
the abstract. The Danes solioquy might be
translated:
,Binen u no bnens ct binos sekr'
Nevertheless VIC can introduce the idea OF
person into IL. He might have said:
"Bnobpn u no blnoben."
Showing that the question related to his
otcn being or not being. Another person
would look at the question as "binomGn II
binomnn." whether he should be or not be. :"
To show the wonderfully plastic character of
the volaHphik verb may, by using the future
perfect sign n, the indefinite or continuous
sign |, and the interrogative Ii. express in one
word the question whether / shall after.
wards continue to be-
UIBINoBGN-LI?
p stands for passive" and predxing that
letter to any active verb makes IT passive.
Penpn. to write; papenPn. to be written;
pepeDmn. to have been written. Polefobli9
shall belovedl
A few other sylables complete the conjuga-
-Ok, reflective; lefomok, he loves him
self.
LA, conjunctve or conditional; jenos- la
1t would or might happen.
-ED imperative; kpmolud comel
-HS, optative; posanomps, may be healed I!
Oh. that he may be healed!
EEL, participle; pene. writing; enenol,
having written; popenel. about TO be written.
Propositions are placed before the noun.
which remains unintected; except where the
proposition denotes motion or tendency,
which requires the accusation. In CAD, in the
garden On dem Garten, in hort0 in gadi, or
ini gad into the garden dn den Garten, in
hortunl.
Under pronouns ] might have spoken OF
these demonstratlves: al, this, ct, that, II,
self. etc; of the relatives, kel, who, which.
kisy wha9 komr kioff kiosy whicnl and
their derivatives, kplad. what place vheres
kitimf What time whcnr The possessives add
TX. as, oblk, N.Y. pertaining to me; onik, ones.
The nd cctive always ends in ik-pAkk per-
tainng TO language; fomik. formal; Melopik.
America; Flentik, French. I'm is more; Hn
rs most, Smallkum, smaller; gudikan. best.
The adjective usually comes Immediately
after the noun IL describes, as Bepakel gasedik
binom kopanel gudik. If this position
is changed, then the adjective must take the
same termination as the noun. Openob penedi
datuvee nulikd puka valedk-I shall write a
letter to the inventor of the new universal
language.
"W ell, when you write to him give him my
what's his adaress2 Tell me about him.
JOHANN MARTIN scuLEYER
resides at Ltzelstetten, village on the banks
of Lake Constance, about four miles from the
city of Constance. He is Roman Catholic
priest and his parish embraces Litzeistetton
and the romantic island of Manau, lying in
the lake just opposite. His age is fty-three,
and he has passed the last ten years in this
quiet region upon stipend OF about 500
yearly lie is well known as an author of
sacred poetry and as an editor OF several re-
lipious periodicals. For years he cherished
the idea OF Il scientific, international language,
and determined to study all the principal
languages of the earth, with view of ilnitit-
ing all their excellences andavoding all their
defects. His mind does not appear to have
been so much occupied with phhosophicai
comparative philology n with the study OF
language as a practical means OF communica-
ton and exprcssion-studying enects AS
produced on the canvas rather than the chem
fcal constitution of the pigments. He made
minute study Of twenty-five languages ana
made himself fairly acquainted with US many
more. He is, OF course, committed 10 phot cue
spelling for all languages and hopes to intro
ducc his world alphabet" tvolalafabl, which
is an extenton of the volapak alphabet This
is a sphere in which do not consider him so
successful as In volapnk itself. Inc 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 y rather OF the
type of Alexander Melville Bells visible
Speech" method schleysr's task is great
enough I'm his own sphere He does not con-
slider it as entirely finished, either The iast
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 in every
number of the "Nolapakabed. new expires
sions are called for and announced. -,
'''rben the movement has its organF
Yes; no movement in this century is or
ganized' until IL has its organ Ihemonth-
" periodical "VolapHkabied' has just begun
its fifth year and has doubied its s.<e. ~ now
contains eight hand dsorneiy printed pages Of
the size of those of "Websters una0r1dged;
Ii Is mostly in double coluinne, one side In
volapHk and the other in 6erman or occa'
sionaliy some other language, as where Prof
Jyab Schwabl contributes some English
proyerbs with volapak translations; aud
Schleyer gives in the January number inter
estiny specimens OF the Language Of the
Dakota Indians and their vp equivalents. j
notice among the Dakota word, 'minl. val,
water, which recalls Longfellow and Minne-
through strenuous for the unity of the idea,
Pather Schleyer Is open to improvements and
auaqestions The months for example were
called Yanul, Febul, setul, Otui. etc,
adaptations Of the Roman Januarius, febru-
arius September. October etc.,
with the termination -ul corresponding to mul,
month. l suggested that these names were
unsciontific that Babul, Telui, kilul, etc.
would be more logical. would not offend the
Ouakers would facilitate calculation OF time
nv their numerical character, and no TWO
would begin with the same letter, so That ao-
bre Walton would be distinct and inconfusible.
Schieyer 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 10 extend the same prin-
ciple 70 the days OF tho week. substituting
balidel telidel kilidel, for Soldel, hupdel'
1IIpdci, del being day. This, too, win prooa-
bly, prevail. To-day" yesterday ana 10
morrow" were las nouns designated by ',tu.
del :" "yesdel and model" but notice that
in the new dictionary more logical forms are
given, using the tcuse prerxes wblel are; 4
for the present tune; a, q, for the past; aud
:, Snr the future Thus the time advefbs are