The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-06-17
new LANGUAGE
is DEVELOPED
LinguiSt In United States Pen
sion Office Is Inventor.
He CALLS IT "VELTLANG. 4"

WIKI a NE" RipnapeNs ne" NumeT- !
icaI Additions and Series of Mark !
ings to Denote, Simply and Easily, /
Length of Vowels and Other Points.
"VeltIang'' is the name which has |
been given to a new language which !
Professor Frederick J. Braendle, Off /
cial translator of the United States
pension Office. has invented. Professor
Braendle describes his language, as
the name indicates, as a world Ian
guage."
In point of fact it is Il universalized
English. but with Il new alphabet ana
new numerical additions and a series
of simply conceived marks to signify
the length of vowels and the combina-
tons Of consonants.
Professor Braendle is linguist of re-
markable experience. His daily en-
ployment at the pension Office makes
necessary familiarity with not less
than sixteen modern languages. He is
proficient in and uses with equal facili-
~ eight languages.
Those at his instant command are
English, French. German. Italian.
MI " AAtAAAs - 81 tAA@Al gAltu anu spun
iSh. Then. too, he speaks Portuguese.
| But he does not consider that any par
| ticular requirement.
1t is practically Spanish, anyhow,
and not worth Identifying as n separate
| language in cataloguiug ones accom-
! plishments," said Professor Braendle.
No Oriental Pensioners.
!
sor Braeudle has Russian. Bohemian
Polish. Turkish. Greek. Latin. Arabic
and Hebrew or Yiddish right Mt hand
! for immediate use in the service of the
! pension office. and. besides that. he un-
derstauds 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.
"Veluaug" is the development of
years Of study. according TO its creator.
II * not a made TO order language I'm
the same sense that Noiapuk aud Is
perauto We're worked up from a series
Of selected words Of other languages
with certain notifications of spelling
and the regularizing of all verbs and "a
| universally regular system Of decleu-
Sions for nouns and adjectives.
"VeItlang' is a natural language. or
as nearly so as such n thing can he
developed I'm 81 single generation and
out of one brain This is the way
Professor Braendle argues:
Five thousand words constitute a
thoroughly workable knowledge of amy
language for commercial or ordinary
literary Uses. When / say this / mean
5000 basic words. One may get along
in any language with a conversations
knowledge of about l.s00 words, but
have assumed for actual uses tha'
5000 is n reasonable equipment
In constructing 'Neltlang' 7 hav,
taken 5000 OF the words right out oI
English. English is today, If not tn,
most universally spoken. at least tn
most broadly spoken language OF mod
ern times. 'Veltlaug' is English Will
its spelling altogether simplidcd an,
its grammar likewise. ] am alrcai,
| carrying on correspondence Wit
friends whom have interested i'm tn
, view that it is the most remarkabl.
, ! simple new language with which the
uAh - th GL ANtlA Atalt'tA upon I'D AALAAa
4 | ize themselves. After they have learn
b ed the alphabet the rest is exceediuEl
3 simple.
Only Twenty Letters.
"The alphabet which ! have invcnte
y rs the vehicle for 'VeltlanG' consists q
y twenty letters. for which I use In ia
" case of all vowels curvilinear Chara,
" ters and all the consouaut sounds re,
" tangular characters.
~ "Diphthongs and double vowels M
y single characters which are. i'm realit!
. combinations of their original comp,
i nents. Q. w. Y. Y and Z are I'm gel
p eral practice eliminated I'm writing {
d printing 'Vcltlang.' but there is read
O substitution for them I'm the write
O language through the combination {
w the used consonants.
IS For example. y is in reality X.
o and 4 is i'm reality CS. and this
Nd easily reproduced by using these col
~ sonauts. For the sake of convcnicnc
- however, include the equivalent cha
~ ncters for the eliminated letters, whiC
- may be used If desired"
~ The new language may be readily a
* yum III b4 bilEhAstlSf Par lAEN4tllIA TT
20 | Chinese and japanese, whose writ,
p language is Geographic. In the cour
IA Of his work for the pension office Pr
u | fessor BraendIe has developed throue
IN | a sort of glorified card index sySte
a universal dictionary.
His most daring feat i'm the ma
- handling of n language has been Il
- construction of n wholly new lexic,
,,2' system for the Chinese and Japane
- | ldeographs.
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