APPENDIX I. 



"LINGUO INTERNACIONA DI LA DELEGITARO." 



(IDO). 



THE Delegation pour 1'Adoption d'une Langue Auxiliaire Internationale, 

 founded in Paris in 1901, has received the support of 310 societies of many 

 countries and the approval of 1,250 professors and academicians. It elected 

 in 1907 an international committee, composed of eminent linguists and men 

 of science, which, after having studied all the projects for international 

 language, adopted Esperanto with certain modifications. These modifica- 

 tions, whilst preserving the principles and essential qualities of Dr. Zamenhof's 

 language, aim at a more logical and strict application of these principles 

 and the elimination of certain unnecessary complications. The following 

 are the principal modifications : 



(1) Suppression of the accented letters, thus permitting the language to be 

 printed everywhere, and at the same time preserving the phonetic and 

 frequently re-establishing the international spelling ; 



(2) Suppression of certain useless grammatical rules which are very 

 troublesome to many nations, and especially to persons possessing only an 

 elementary education (accusative, concord of the adjective) ; 



(3) Regularisation of the method of derivation, this being the only means 

 of preventing the intrusion of idioms and of furnishing a solid foundation 

 for the working out of the scientific and technical vocabulary so indispensable 

 for the propagation of the language in the scientific world ; 



(4) Enrichment of the vocabulary by the adoption of new stems care- 

 fully chosen according to the principle of maximum internationality. 



All the words have, in fact, been formed from international stems, that is 

 to say those which are common to the majority of European languages, with 

 the result that they are immediately recognised by everyone of medium 

 education. It is not necessary therefore to learn a new language ; the 

 international language is the quintessence of the European ones. It is, 

 however, incomparably more easy than any of them on account of its 

 simplicity and absolute regularity ; there are no useless rules, and no excep- 

 tions. It can be learnt by reading it ; as soon as one can read it one can 

 write it ; as soon as one can write it one can speak it. And experience has 

 proved that the differences of pronunciation amongst people of the most 

 diverse countries are insignificant and cause no trouble at all. To sum up, 

 the linguo internaciona is a simplified and improved Esperanto, very analogous 

 to primitive Esperanto, but possessing the advantage over the latter of 

 being immediately intelligible, so that it is destined to become the interna- 

 tional language. Besides, it has already received the warm approval and 

 support of many of the earliest and best Esperantists. It alone, thanks to 



