Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-01-14
VOLAPUK HAS A RIVAL.
ESPERANTO Il tuE NAME or new
UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE.
Is spoken by 10000 Persons originated In
Russia aud the Formation of
Words Is According to
simple Rules.
From ~ - York Norld.

From the New York World.
Esperanto O., not the name ot new
lqucur or ot new appetizer nor that ol
aH ARTIFICIAL l1uguacc which is fast gaining
! aihorouts iu France and that is already
able 70 boast Of MANY followers iu Russia,
Germany. England, Norway Sweden, Italy,
spain, the United states ana even In some
Among those most proficient IN the Ian.
FuaFe is Frcnchman, bearing the dristo-
cratic name Of - Eyssau'l.r lie saws that
nor even a recent discovery. This inter-
national lansuaEe has been In existence
world.
The author or originator or Esperanto
is Russian gentleman, Dr IamcnhOf, OF
warsaw. lie calls 1t a universal language.
lie says that ono may learn its grammar
N an hour ana all It's vocabulary of words
Max Muller writes It with the greatest
ease, and 30 does Tolstoi lwho H. one Of
the leading contributors 'r,->the oii--.l. or.
g9h OF me, languagr, the EsF-rWU To-,
w tnstlGIr, Y, 10y the way IS utterly, opposed( =
denotes
:. The fac, Is, Esperanto hopes to dethrone
ten ia IL. and translations OF the Had and
iamlet have been published. This new
hopes Is perhaps better known In Russia
tH1R N any other eonIry. Russia is its
Like All artificial universal languages
me roots OF Esperanto are derived from the
hgrl known OF modern tougues-EngIish
least difficulty 20 students As a root in
alHduns The action Uf loving tho syllable
'am' has been adopted Now, should one
wish TO make "a Substantive and nbtsin
the word love" iu French amour. one mas
but TO add the letter ''o.i thus 1bf,,Inints
10 o3ldiH substantive from a given root
al the letter co." Noth,. 4 Is easier
In similar manner 10 octain AN adiect-
l,u ~ a.3ih !.3i "a gwen root, one has but 10 add
aN instead of an 90" ana thus the
Mcri "amornus' dn French "amoreuND
rule for forming ali-ctives has no exccp-
,ti'hs. Aa1 me letter "a 10 the root and
Verbs are obtained in quite as easy a
fashloH. The present tense demands but
letters "is" after the roof, ana lie future
by The addition of 'os These termlna-
lions are inEarIuble The present. past
iHlure and other lenses are always Oh
lathaule M the same easy fashion by The
al.llion OF a couple OF letters 20 the roo-.
ir trammlr OF the new language IS
ttsA aud almost as simple as the formation
or the vocabulary. There are very few
rules IN the entire book OF grammar. and,
ctNligEs 70 any Of the rules.
r. Nolapuk laaElase IS very similar
OF Nulapuk nowadays As 10 this a Nola-
puk authority says.
IT should not bee Imagined that because
M Spapuk pr1paEahda has ceased. and
that because at The present time there are
TO more schools and lectures. that the
Nolapuk language is Inferred forever. "
IL were 80 one would have some cause for
saying that IL has become "a dead Ian
gudse before ever having been a living
one Bur such Is not the case
Many French people az the present day,
who know no other language but their
own, are corresponding III Nolapuk with
Americans, JaTarese Russians and Turks.
It's practical results are sufficiently con-
elusive IN the immense corr spondrnce eN-
changed Internationally The partisans u
Esperanto may possibly obtain the sam.
results. But that only goes TO prove that
the very principle Of universal language
has nothing ChImCTical about II.
The language utilized ia communira-
tions between semaphores IS understood
~ captains al sea, whatever be their ma
tllHalty. l.et any foreign ship arrive out
side a French port and the captains see
au inverted cone. he will know al once
that a storm Is expected. In his study ~
the language Of semaphores and light
houses he never abandoned his own
tongue. With Nolapuk and Esperanto
matters are much the same. man may
study both and be fluent with both with
OUT dropping his OWE natural language"
ID seems al present that Noiapuk or
Esperanto may bee utilized extensively IN
commercial, scientific and other commuIi-