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THE INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE

HAND-BOOK OF Volapük

BY CHARLES E. SPRAGUE Member of the Academy of Volapük -- President of the Institute of Accounts

NEW YORK: THE OFFICE COMPANY, LONDON: TRÜBNER & CO. CHICAGO: S. R. WINCHELL & CO.

1888

COPYRIGHT, 1887, BY CHARLES E. SPRAGUE

TRUNK BROS., PRINTERS, NEW YORK.

Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• How to Use this Book
• Sounds and Letters
• Parts of Speech
• Numbers

• Exercise 1

• Cases

• Exercise 2

• Persons

• Exercise 3
• Exercise 4
• Exercise 5
• Exercise 6
• Exercise 7

• Genders

• Exercise 8

• Formation of Adjectives

• Exercise 9
• Exercise 10
• Exercise 11
• Exercise 12
• Exercise 13
• Exercise 14

• Formation of Adverbs

• Exercise 15

• Degrees of Comparison

• Exercise 16

• Tenses

• Exercise 17

• Passive Voice

• Exercise 18

• Infinitiv

• Exercise 19

• Participle

• Exercise 20

• Imperativ

• Exercise 21

• Conditional, Conjunctiv and Potential

• Exercise 22

• Interrogativ Form

• Exercise 23

• Frequentativ or Aortist

• Exercise 24

• Reflexiv

• Exercise 25

• Prepositions and the Kimifal
• Synopsis of the Volapük Inflection
• Use of Prepositions
• Derived Prepositions
• Formation of Interjections
• Use of Conjunctions and Adverbs

• Exercise 26

• Order of Words

• Exercise 27

• Idiomatic Expressions
• Derivation of Words

• Exercise 28

• Abraham E Bäleda
• Model of Translation and Grammatical Analysis
• Spodam
• Lilädam
• Vocabulary
• Key to the Exercises