Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1913-06-14
NEW LANGUAGE
IS DEVELOPED
LilguISt In United States Pen
sion Office Is Inventor.
He CALLS IT "vELTLAHG. "

u Is Really q universalized English,
With . New Alphabet, New Numer-
ieal Additions and Series Of Mark
ines TO Denote, Simply and Easily
Length Of vowels ard Other Points
"Veitang' IS The name which has
been given to d new language which
Professor Frederic j. Rraendle, OIL
cial Translator of the United States
pension office, has invented. Professor
Braendle describe his language. as
the name indcates. as a world Ian
euage."
IN point Of fact it is uniyersalized
| English, but with a new alphabet and
new numerical additions and series
Of simply conceived marks to signify
the length Of yowels and the conIbina
tons Of consOnants.
Professor Braendle is lnguist Of re
marketable experience His daily EN-
! ployment at the pension office uiakeS
/ necessary familiarity with not less
than sixteen modern languages. He Is
proficient in aud uses with equal faciB
~ eight languages
Those at his instant command are
English, French. German, Italian
/ Norwegian, Swedish. Dutch and Span
ish. Then, too. he speaks Portuguese
But be does not consider that any par
ucular requirement
1T is practically Spanish, anyhow.
| and not worth diguifying as separate
| language In catalogldng ones accom-.
pIishments," said Professor Braende.
No Oriental Pensioners.
In addition to these tongues. Profes
scr 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
derstands and Translates Chinese and
Japanese. although not in the line OF
his duty, for Uncle Sam has no Chi
nese or japanese pensioners to give
| the professor practice.
"Veltlang' is the development of
years of study. according to its creator
1t Is not n made 10 order language in
the same sense that Nolapuk and rs
peranto We're worked up from Il series
OF selected words Of other languages
with certain qualifications of spelling
and the regularizing Of all verbs and u
I universally regular system of deolen
sions for nounsl and adjectives
I "VeltlaneY is a natural language or
as nearly SO as fsuch Il thing can be
/ developed in a single generation and
out of one brain This is the way
Professor Braeude argues
Give thousand words constitute Il
thoroughly workable knowledge of ans
language for commercial or ordinary
literary uses When / say this mean
5000 basic words One may get slong
in any language with a conversational
/ knowledge Of about 1880 words. hut /
have assumed for actual uses that
/ 5000 is a reasonable equipment
/ in constructing 'Veltlang | have
taken 5000 of the words right ont Of
English English is today. if not the
most universally spoken, Mt least The
most broadly spoken language of mod
crn times Veltlang' is English Wit.
/ its spelling altogether silnpliied ant
It's grammar likewise am alrcad
carrying on correspondence Wit,
friends whom | have Interested In ID
view that It is the most remarkably
simple new language with which they
have ever been called upon TO familia,
lie themselves After they have learn
cd the alphabet the rest is exceedingly
simple.
Only Twenty Letters.
"The alphabet which have nYenteo
Ga the vehicle for 'veitlang' consists OF
twenty letters, for which | use in the
case Of all vowels eurvillnear charac
tiers ana all the consonant sounds rec
tanaular characters.
"Diphthougs and double vowels ara
single characters which are. In reality
combinations Of their original compo
nents Q. w, Y. and u are in gen
eral practice eliminated in writing o.
printing Neltlang. but there is rcady
d. substitution for them in the written
language through the combination of
the used consonauts
For example. y is in reality KS
and u is IN reality CS. and this Is
( easily reproduced by using these con
Gonants. For The sake of convenience.
however, | include the equivalent char
acters for the eliminated letters which
may be used II desired"
The new language may be readily ac.
CURED by orieutas. particularly the
Chinese and Japanese, whose written
language is Geographic In the course
Of his WORK for the pension office Pro
fessor Braendlc has developed through
a sort OF glorifed card index system
/ a universal dictionary
4 His most daring feat in the man
handling of language has been the
+ construction of wholly new lexicon
Bystem for the Chinese and Japanese
ldeographs
BURNS POEMS BRING S7O0.