The Washington herald., 1913-05-25
WORLD LANGUAGE.
IS INVENTED HERE.
"Veltlang" Is the Name Of
Anniversal Speech Work
ed Out by Linguist.
PROF. BRAENDLE AUTHOR
Alphabet Has Only Twenty Letters,
and the Code Is Simple in
the Extreme.

''Veltlang." which means world, Ian
guage," is the name that has been given
to the new language which Prof. Fred
erick ]. Braendle official translator of
the United States Pension ONCE. has in
vented II is. in point of fact univer-
salized English. but with new alphabet
and new numerical signs and a series of
exceedingly simply conceived marks 20
signify the length of vowels and the COM
binations OF consonants 1t looks in its
written form to be something altogether
novel
Prof. Braendle is a linguist of remark
able experience. To begin with, his daily
employment at the Pension Office makes
necessary familiarity with no less than
sixteen modern languages. He is pro-
fcient in and uses with equal facility no
less than eight. Those at his instant COM
mand are English, French, German. Ital-
ian, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, and
Spanish. Then, too, he speaks Portu-
guese, but does not consider that any par
ticular requirement TT is practically
Spanish, anyhow, and not worth dignity
ing as a separate language in cataloguing
ones accomplishment" says Prof Braen-
die
In addition to these tongues. there are
Russian, Bohemian, Polish Turkish,
Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew, or
Yiddish. right at hand for immediate use
in the service of the Pension ONCE, and
besides that, Prof. Braendle understands
and translates Chinese and Japanese, al
though not in the line of his duty. for
Uncle Sam has no Chinese or japanese
pensioners to furnish Prof. Braendle with
practice.
Result of Years of study.
Veltlang is the development of years
of study according to its creator. 1t is
T1ada-rn-nrner language
same sense that Volapuk and Esperanto
were worked right up from a series of
selected words of other languages with
certain notifications of spelling and the
regularizing of all verbs and a univer-
sally regular system of declensions for
nouns and adjectives. 1t is a natural
language. or as nearly so as such
thing can be developed in a single gen
Grafton and out of one brain. This is
the way Prof Braendle argues:
Five thousand words constitute
thoroughly working. workable knowledge
of any language for commercial or or
binary literary uses. When | say this
! mean 5,coO basic words. For exam
pie l mean door and step two words;
doorstep a third word. which to a per-
son knowing the meaning of its two
components signifies a certain concrete
thing
In constructing Veltlang I have
taken 5000 of the words right out of
the English. English is today. If not
the most universally spoken. at least
the most broadly spoken language of
modern times. Veltlang is English
with its spelling altogether simplified
and its grammar likewise. l am al
ready carrying on correspondence with
friends whom l have interested in the
new language. They express the view
tina; it is the most remarkably simple
new language that they have ever
been called upon TO familiarize them
selves with After they have learned
the alphabet the rest is exceedingly
simple.
Ha. Only Twenty Letters.
The alphabet which l have invented
as the vehicle for Veltlang consists of
twenty letters. for which l use in me
case of all vowels curvilinear charac-
tiers. and for all the consonantal
sounds rectangular characters Diph-
thongs and double vowels are single
characters which are in reality COM
tiuations of their original components.
O. W. Y. Y, and Il are in general /
practice eliminated in writing or print
ing Teltlang, but there is ready sub
stitution for them in the written Ian
guaSe through the combination of the
used COnSonants.
The new language may De redullS dc-
quired by Orientals, particularly the Chi
nese and Japanese, whose written Ian
guage is Geographic. In the course of
his work for the Pension Office, Profess
scr Braendle has developed. through a
sort of glorified card index system, a
universal dictionary. His most daring
feat in the man-handling of a language
has been the construction of a wholly !
new lexicon system for the Chinese and |
japanese ideographs. Prof. BraendIe is
convinced that under the Chinese SYST IN |