The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1913-06-10
new LANGUAGE
IS DEVELOPED
lInrulst N United States PSn-
sion Office Is Inventor.
ne CALLS It "vEl1lAHe. :

II 10 Really . UnivsrsaIizsd Enslishs
With . New Alphabet, New Numsr-
ieal Additions and Series Of Mark
inss 70 Denote, simply and Easily,
Length sf vewsIs and Other Peints.
"veltlang" IL the name which has
been given to new language which
Professor Frederick ]. Braendle. on
cial translator Of the United States
pension Office. has invented. Professor
Braendle describes bis language, 40
the name indicates. ~ Q world Ian
guage."
In point Of fact Il II q universalised
English. but with new alphabet and
new numerical additions and a series
Of simply conceived marks to signify
the length Of vowels and the combina.
tions of consonantA
Professor Braendle - linguist Of 10
markable experience. His daily en-
ployment at the pension once makes
necessary familiarity With not less
than sixteen modern languages. He iS
proficient in and uses with equal facili-
II eight languages.
Those At his instant command arc
English, Z French. German. Italian.
Norwegian. Swedish. Dutch and Span
ish. Then. too. he speaks Portuguese.
But be does not consider that any par
ticular scquirement
1t II practically Spanish, anyhow.
and not worth dignifying AZ separate.
language In cataloguing ones. accom-
plishments." said Professor Brasndl&
Ne Oriental psnsisners.
In addition to these tongues, Profes-
cor Braendle has Russian. Bohemian,
Polish, Turkish. Greek. Latin. Arabic
and Hebrew or Yiddish right at hand
for immediate use In the service Of the.
pension office. and. besides that. he un.
dentands and translates Chinese and
Japanese, although not In the line Of
bis duty. for Uncle Sam has no Chit
nese or Japanese pensioners to give.
the professor practice. ~J
"veltlang'' 10 the development Of
years of study. according to its creator.
II II not made to order language in
the same sense that volapuk and Es-
peranto were worked up from q series
Of selected words of other languages
with certain notifications OF spelling
and the regularixing Of al verbs and .
| universally regular system of declen-
sions for nouns and adjectives.
"veltlang" ID natural language. or
% nearly 10 a. such thing can be-
developed In single generation and
out Of one brain This IL the way
Professor Braendle argues:
"Five thousand words constitute .
thoroughly workable knowledge Of any
language for commercial or ordinary
literary uses. When say this mean
5000 basic words. One may get along
In any language with conversational
knowledge of about 1900 words. but
have assumed for actual uses that
5000 is a reasonable equipment
"In constructing 'veltlang have
taken 5000 of the words right out Of
English. English IL today. II not the
most universally spoken. at least the
most broadly spoken language Of mod
ern times. 'Veltlang' is English with
Its spelling altogether simpliAed and
Its grammar likewise ! am already
carrying on correspondence with
friends whom have interested In the
view that It is the most remarkably
simple new language with which they
have ever been called upon to familiar.
ixe themselves. After they have learn
ed the alphabet the rest is exceedingly
simple.
Only Twenty Letters.
'The alphabet which have invented
a. the vehicle for .veltlang' consists Of
twenty letters. for which I use In the
case Of all vowels curvilinear charac.
tiers and all the consonant sounds rec.
tangular characters.
| "Diphthongs ana double voweis are
single characters which are. in reality.
nents Q. w. X. and are In gen.