The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1914-08-07

Before flags and religions men knew
friend from foe by the language test.
More than half Of all the wars of Eu.
rope have been fought by parties mu.
tually uninteiligible.
Broadly speaking. all European Ian.
guages belong to the Aryan group.
The most important exception Is the
Magyar. a dialect Of the same Ian
guage spoken by Turks and Firms.
How Divided BY Language.
OF the Aryan tongues there are three
great general divisions in Europe-Ro-
nance. Teutonic. Slavic. We are In.
terested only In the latter two. And
OF the Teutonic German is spoken by
100000. Of which 10000. 900 are in
Austria and 100000 in Hungary.
There are 140.000.00O Slavs In Eu-
rope.
From this It appears that the pres.
ent political boundaries are not coter.
minous with linguistic groups
Right here In this fact We have the
seeds Of present and future trouble
and clue to the causes Of most OF
the wars In eastern Europe through
1900 years.
siav Situation In Europe.
To get before US the full signifi-
canoe of the fact suggested by the
map let US consider the linguistic com
plexion OF these countries.
Russia Ia q veritable hodgepodge Of
tongues. but Of her Slav population
alone we have at least two distinct
elements today bitterly opposed to
each other with the possibility. II not
the probability, Of q third. which will
seek recognition.
As against Russians proper there
are over 100000 Poles. and OF the
remaining Slavs there are 100000
Ruthenians. or Little or White Rus
SLAMS. a. they are sometimes called.
OF the general Polish situation l shall
speak later.
In Germany there are over 100000
Slavs. chiefly Polish.
OF Austrta's 100000 population
only about q third Is German. the re-
mainder being Slav. Of which there are
over 100000 Czechs or Bohemians.
5000 900 Poles, 100000 Ruthenians.
and q million and q quarter Slovenes.
Many Tongues In hungary.
Hungary 10 even more diversified
In tongue. The Magyar element
tl0.000.0O0) 10 eQualed by the non.
Magyar made up roughly OF 100000
Germans. 1000. 900 slovaks. one-half
Million Ruthenes. 100000 serbo-
Creates, all Of the Slavonic tongue.
and about 100000 Roumanians who
do not speak slav at all. but q Ro-
nance language.
We need not here consider the lin.
guistic afinities OF the Balkan states.
II 10 enough to say that Servia 10 pure
ly servian and slav, Bulgaria IL Bull
gar and slav Though the basis OF
blood Of Bulgars IL. like that Of the
Magyar. Asiatic).
The population Of Montenegro. about
half a million. are Slavs Of the Ser.
Wan branch. Rouman.ans are Of
mixed origin. but the Roumanian
tongue Is spoken by 100000 people.
Of which i've and half million are
In Roumania (s2 per cent OF its total
the remaining millions
are found In the Dual Monarchy. Ser.
via, Bulgaria and Russia
esop,s Develop Language.
Millions Of people today speak Pol.
ish whose ancestors few generations
ago weren't conscious Of the fact that
they spoke any language At all To-
day there 10 . slavonic literature;
60 years ago no one even thought OF
such Q thing. The millions Of Bohe-
mians had become almost entirely Ger.
mans. and never before have they
been 10 thoroughly shvonic ~ today.
bohemian hostility to Germany has
been called . passion. II was not 20
very long ago that the language Of
the Hungarian parliament was Latin
Magyar was held NJ only for peasant
talk. To-day the bitterness between