Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-12-22
HAS A NEW LANGUAGE,
Esperanto" Is Invented in the Hope That
1t Will Be Adopted by All
Nations.


1t is spelled with our own alphabet.
emitting q, W, and and adding five
accented characters 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
letter, and no more. The accent falls
invariably on the penult. The vowels
are pronounced as in this sentence:
A o U
Father made me 60 too
The only consonants that require men,
ton are Cts (bits); G. hard as in 'go;"
J-y young; S, like the initial in ''sys-
tenn" 81, like ch Qochl; G, like the mi
tial in gem" J, like the 50 in pleas
ure;" Ssh (she): C-ch church,.
There is no indefinite article; the def
mite article, the" is always La. which
sometimes abbreviates TO l..
. AS for the vocabulary. it is built on
the principle of already existing inter
nationality in very large number of
words; tiIat is TO say, every word al
ready existing in familiar forms in two
or more languages is at once absorbed
into Esperanto with only such slight al
teratlons as are necessiuated by the uni
form and phonetic spelling. Such, for
example, as telefono, teatro, kliento,
ana many, many thousands of others, all
instantly apPareRt to the large majority
OF jewellers in Europe and America. The
similarity between the three principal
romantic languages swings the yocabu-
larry In distinctly Latin direction, with
the result that Esperanto gives one the
impression of Portuguese set in an Ital-
ian printing office by a Spanish printer
n nhnli tltyt
dlttles. Before the result went to press
an Englishman and German seem to
have dabbled with it, to say nothing of
several other personages of mixed
Fbreeds; yet, the result, on the whole, is
perfectly comprehensive and possesses
a scientific adherence to rule that out
distances any natural language thou
sand miles.
Where certain words possessed no Sin
ternationality. DR.. Zamenhof selected
them impartially here and there, so as
TO give everybody a fair chance. as it
were. These words Ga large minority are
most of them familiar. Such for example.
as sed (but), kaj (and), brak (arm),
daktll (date), clam (always).
SO much for the elements of the yo-
ca bulary, forming about 1000 root words
upon which the enormous number of
compounds and derivatives is formed
TOUR times as many as in Spanish, for
example. No words occur arbitrarily in
Esperanto. The language contains no
word which does not exist already
somewhere in some other language
BY the aid of seventeen grammatical
examinations and some thirty suffixes
and prehXeS Esperanto extends its yo-
cabulary freely to meet any demands of
expression.
Every word in Esperanto that ends
with % is invariably a noun; that en- Is
with "a" an adjective, with "e' de-
rived adverb; with so the infnitive of
verb. Thus: La teruro," terror; ter
ura. terrible; '"terure." terribly. Or
again, La parole" word: ''parola,"
oral; parole" orally; ''paroli,' to speak
verts the meaning in every case. ''Fermi'
means to shut: ''malfermi," to open.
"Granda' signifies large; 'malgranda,"
small: Final ''j'' marks the plural; M
final indicates the accusative Feminines
are formed by interpolating ''in," as, for
example: "Onklo," uncle; "onklino,"
aunt. "Eg" conveys the idea of enlarge
ment: "Domo.". a house; 'domego," a
mansion. "Ec' forms distractions, as
ship. ''Il' is the sign of Instrumentation:
"Razi." to shave; "razilo," razor. lar"
expresses COLLECTIVELY, as 'arbo," a tree,
"arbaro." forest. BY means of list
the professions are denoted: "Drogo,"
a drug; ''drogisto," a druggist. I'D"
makes diminutives; "Kato'' and "katido"
are, respectively, cat and kitten-and so
on almost ad infnitum. With all the
various particles in all their possible
combinations and organizations no
thought is fine or subtle enough TO es-
cape the range of Esperanto-at least,
so claim those who know it best.
Here are q few cOmpounds of COX" :