The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-30
ESPERANTO.
A Brief Account 81 the Language Of Hope
and title Grammar.
From az I~ndependeni.

8AG WV ~
From TIE Independent.
It ls spelled with our own alphabet, emitting
q. ". 4 and y and adding ave accented char
acters the sounds Of which exist in English.
Esperanto has no sounds peculiar to any
one language. none. In fact. which do not
exist In all. Thus there are no foreign
sounds to learn and blunder over. The
writing is. OF course. absolutely phonetic
one sound. one letter. and no more. The
accent falls invariably on the penult. The
vOwels are pronounced a. In this sentence:
A D u
Father made me go too.
The only c~Onsonants that require mention
are Cts Cbits): o.. hard AZ In go; J=y
(~younR): 8. like the initial In system; II,
like oh 0ochl: @. like tho initial in -gem-;
]. like the 3" in pleasure; Ssh Cshe);
Cob tchurChD.
There is no indefinite article; the definite
article. the. : is always La. which sometimes
abbreviates to L.
As for the vocabulary. 10 Is built On the
principle OF already existing Internationally
10 a very large number Of words; that Is to
say. every word already existing In familiar
forms in two or more languages In at once
absorbed into Esperanto with only such
slight alterations as are neoessitated by the
uniform and phonetic spelling. Such. for
example. as ~teLeionO. tedtyo, ktieHto, and many.
many thousands OF others. all instantly APP
parent to the large majority OF jewellers In
Europe and America. The similarity be-
tween the three principal Romantic lam
guages swings the vocabulary In a distinctly
Latin direction. with the result that Esperanto
gives one the impression of Portuguese set In
an Italian printing ONCE by a Spanish printer
while Alphabetically trying to hum French
ditties. Before the result went to press an
Englishman and a German seem to have
dabbled with il. to say nothing OF several
thar narannnR0a IF mlNAd hrAQda. vet the
result. on the whole. 10 perfectly comDre-
hensible and possesses a scientific adherence
to rule that outdistances any natural language
Where certain words possessed no. Inter
nationality" DR.. Zamenhof selected them
sTs%TbadE here ERE s snd shes Ss # SO were as to rs ssss
words IA large minority are most OF them
familiar. Such, for example,. as, ssd CbutI.
kgJ tandl. 6rdk (arm). ddkt1 'date)' cam
So much for the elements of the vocabulary.
the enormous number Of compounds and
as in spanish, for example No words occur
tains no word which does not exist already
somewhere in some other language.
nations and some thirty ~sufixes and p~refxes
Esperanto extends its vocabulary freely to
meet any demands IS ES 81 erpressi .Sat sDds With
n adjective with e, a derived ab1eTb;
Will J. lue luilnlblNo OA u NcIO. Ahubs La
%teruro. terror; -~terura." terrible; "~terure,"
terribly Or. again. ! parole" a word
mall lnverts the meaning in every case.
-Fermi" means 70 shut; -malfermi." 70 open;
small: Final u" marks the plural; IN" final
indicates the accusative, Femintnes are
s Ample + p f85nt.EPSs e.DG anele. ' ioakli as; for aunt s1-
''Es" conveys the idea Of enlargement: DO
mo-" a house -domeso. . mansion; -ES"
:ssratseco,' friendship. ri. is the sign o.
Instrumentation: Raj. to shave; %IaSilo,"
"arbo. a tree, -arbarO," a forest. By meaus
Of list" the professions are denoted: -Drogo."
a drug: "drogisto," a druggist. I'd" makes
srectlyely, cat and ~kltten-and so on almost
ad infinitum. With all the various particles
in all their possible combinations and per-
mutations no thought ts ane or subtle enough
TO escape the range of Esperanto-at least
so claim those who know II best.
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