The morning call., 1891-10-11
VOLAPUK.
The First Of a Series Of Short Written Lessons
in The Language.

The advance that has been made in the
study of Volapuk," said gentleman who
has given much attention to the subject to
a representative of THE CALL, SIS some
thing wonderful. and you would be as
tonished to know the large number OF people
that there are in San Francisco who are
trying TO perfect themselves in the new
language And there are great many
more who, | am sure, would like to know
something about it. l know of no better
way of giving such an opportunity than to
urnish them short lesson in the Sunday
issue of THE CALL"
At the suggestion of this gentleman a
series of such lessons will appear, and those
who wish TO devote their attention to the
matter will have al opportunity to study
the written language, and If they are deslr-
GUS of ascertainng If they are on the right
road TO the learning they may correspond
with Mr.. A. l.. Bancroft of 303 Suffer
street. who will assist them in the matter.
great deal of instruction, as we'll as
much pleasure, may be derived from these
lessons and the correspondence that is sure
to follow.
The ALPHABET has 10 cOnsonants Same as In
English, emitting @ and w and voWels. which
are tile English series with three additional
ones viz, Ii. and ii.
The ARTICLE Is, as in Latin, omitted in this
language.
The CONSTRUCTION is:
First he subject. followed by It's quallfers.
Second-The verb, followed by its modlflers.
Third-The object, followed by its qu;tliflers.
FOufth-1he direct precedeS the indirect object,
unless the latter is a personal prOnOun. Fifth
Adverbs Of time follow Immediately the verb.
StXth-A noun in the possessive case follows Its
governing noun.
The Noun
Is of one uniform declensiou, in four cases, viz;
NOMINATIVE answering 10 the English SUB
JECr), GENITIvE answering to The English
PossEssIvE). DATIvE answering TO the En-
glish INDIRECT OBJECT) and ACCUsATIVE
answering to The DIRECT oBJECT).
EXAMPLE.
SINGULAR. PLURAL.
NONrsAr1vn Man tns man. Mans Ctne, men
eEN1rIvE Mana, of the man, Manas, of tthe) men
DATIvE Name to the man. Names, to (the) men
AccUsAr1vE Mani. the man. Manis, ttne) men
II Will be noticed that the vowels A. E, I, in
their English oder. respectively f0Im their case
eDdings. aud that the plural forms simply add
TO The singular. ALL nouns afe thus declined.
THE ADJECTIVE
Is formed by adding TX 10 the uominatiVe sngu-
lar NOUN, susceptible OF an adjective idea, and
is not declIued unless It is used without lis noun,
in which case il takes the same case BINDINGS as
THE ADYERB
Is formed by adding o 10 any ADJECTIVE.
VOCABULARY.
NOUNS. CoSJUScTIoSs.
Pull, boy. Gud, goodness. E aud. Alb, but.
Dom. house. LON. home. l. also. L, or
FieH, friend.
VERBS,
Binom, is. logon, sees.
LabOm, has. kidom kisses.
EXERCISES.
Pull bInom gudik-Mans binoms gudik-Flen
pula logon gUdi % dOmi-Flens kdons pulls
Man logon Buli kidOm / fieni-Man biuOm
flenik, ab pul laOom doml maua-Puls binoms
gUdik henik.
The good boy kisses In friendly way (fenlko)
the man-The house is the home Of the boys
friend-1he man serS tile house, but the boy sees
and Kisses the friends OF the man-The houses
are COCO, but lie boys are also friendly-A boy
or man Is good, and friends see and KISS good
friends.
Vulaiukane's Jola Stilamelik - Labayllels
pausdums al Ynf0n menUdon lali2gis kels
posedGmS ODE ia studels voiapuka. Walks kels
bnOms vIliK BOvob0n abiigOms vemO II OsedOms
namis e lsdetis omsix sole A. L. Bancroft, CIIel
tata haifolau, 800 Suffer StreeI, san Francisco.