The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-06

:. being received in the United
noteworthy indication of
sdeaing OF American interests,
increasing necessity of our
ss;ur able to speak some Ian"
.,her than their own. While it
,het the American living in the
"a the country seldom has use
ol.s;nc ~ hut his mother tongue, the
ss;6 element we are continual
lo,. spg into our population, and
increase in the volume of
Ifp travel abroad, gives rise to
esrrlwardness esr which can only be
by O common method of eN-
g The earth IS population mum
np noar 500, ,000,0 900, representing
,n!4avent nv countries whose people
InnSreds of distinct languages
ri1.ets ns Communication between
al'is : nouderous task, involving the
saas of many languages and too
.JIssndence on interpreters. To
Y :, sS;s difficulty experiments have
~.Se time and again to perfect a
= ~ universal language, and in
s,c " she problem has probably
plved.
thirty years ago Dr.. Louis
=, IA nj Warsaw, Poland, COM
no. nav universal language that
hsiisye will answer the needs of
snns who wish to communicate
,soSe of other tongues. He signed
TTDr. Esperanto when he first
IA his work. and he has, become
ss 1.-THE hopper" to his friends,
tSs language he compiled has
.,mnlimented with the same name.
ssmsnbof denies that he has III
new language. II is based on
'..a;nc European languages and
rs ali of their good elements and
d the bad,
siudious physician planned a
"a that is said by critics and
"a the world over to be the
NJ simplicity and ease. He pro-
aiter a most logical fashion to
tbe words that are common to
|;.,diue languages of Europe He
| ,bOse many words common to the
5iy Of the languages. These be
%mf6cient, he added Characteristic
6on, all languages, preferably the
and spelling these phonetically
y a tssu aside to be used as root
a she compilation of the univer-
;s;snu. There are 1000 root-words.
'Sniuated all sounds that are pc
10 any one language and cut
n double letters. For example, the
'Sug "thn and the letter 'w" of
Scish language are not common
--ssb and German, so they were
<sisd from his list, The French
and the German Hu' with the
- above, the Spanish Hn' that
rnates the sound of "y,' the
KS al" and the German sch J"
z,ut the way of the outcasts. He
however, two sounds for c, two
.Ek.i.s and IL. American critics
u some of these may be eliminated
|1;bapged for smoother sounds as
bring a Russian acceIH that is
Ia Tor Anglo. Saxon and Gallic
,s The duplicate letters are
"a with circumileN accent that
them difficult for ordinary
d of this country to print, but
1 from this American critics have
rsd Esperanto with great favor
fiendliness.
sirength OF Esperanto rests on
Iouudstions-the regularity and
Etity of its grammar and its won
system of word building. II is
|iAt in these respects it surpasses
\ Der languages, ancient or modern,
. he world has ever known. " Evo-
1 BY artificial selection is the
given Or. Zamenhof IS work by
4 40 writer Like all other inven-
md works of great geriuses, the
! language strikes one with its sim
h, and avery student rises al once
Ne surprised query. "Why didn t
p Of tbstf 1t is so easy!'
ls Of speech in Esperanto are rec
h BY their endings. The letter
ussd as an ending always indi-
noun. Adjectives end in ga. -
IL adverbs made from other
Ia "e" and so on. The plural
Z aoqn is formed by adding fj,'
: reM "y" to the singular F'loro
j Fr in Esperanto; floroj is flowers.
ne no irregular verbs, and every
J accented on next to the hast
Sender is not a matter of
or rules or accidents as III the
languages, but is based on rea-
, "a common sense, the feminine
2 fdrmed from the masculine by
IN to the root Knabo -
III "Knabino'' is girl,
2 flexible language. On the
: Fa words As extensive q vocab-
Il y one needs can be built This
incredible when one recalls the
sn the dictionary compiled by
teach academy contains $4,000
Al tls English and German diction-
|p u9m $4,000 TO 100000, accord
sae author. and Webster s. the
= M ,s authority, between 10000
= O@vo words. AS a test Ham.
. az been translated into Esperan.
Saee Shakespeare had a known
iafy Of 1000 words, and the flex
VI MS play was unharmed, the
1000. Further proof was found
90 snslation Of some Of Dickens
Z, oi Eue!id's geometry and vari
d 'eneh plays. Renau once said
eooa vocabulary could be based
loot words and their deriva
. .na With Its 1000 root words Es
q, Expects to stand the test still
ained that with a key in one ;.
"A %suage and the vest pocket edi
combined grammar and vo
y N Esperanto, that any per
~ now travel over Europe in any
+" which Esperanto has found
~ 4 has been tried by anxiou.
:. saa proved true, Some French
~ ,n. 70 Folkstone, England. The,
msS no English, and thei
Sould speak no French, Som,
Sssa Key to Esperanto and il