Ido (language)

Ido
Pronunciation IPA: [ˈido]
Created by Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language
Date 1907
Setting and usage International auxiliary language
Users 100–200 (2000)[1]
Purpose
Sources based on Esperanto
Official status
Regulated by Uniono por la Linguo Internaciona Ido
Language codes
ISO 639-1 io
ISO 639-2 ido
ISO 639-3 ido
Glottolog None
Linguasphere 51-AAB-db

Ido /ˈiːdoʊ/ is a constructed language created to be a universal second language for speakers of diverse backgrounds. Ido was specifically designed to be grammatically, orthographically, and lexicographically regular, and above all easy to learn and use. In this sense, Ido is classified as a constructed international auxiliary language. It is the most successful of many Esperanto derivatives, called Esperantidos.

Ido was created in 1907 out of a desire to reform perceived flaws in Esperanto, a language that had been created for the same purpose 20 years earlier. The name of the language traces its origin to the Esperanto word ido, meaning "offspring",[2] since the language is a "descendant" of Esperanto. After its inception, Ido gained support from some in the Esperanto community, but following the death in 1914 of one of its most influential proponents, Louis Couturat, it declined in popularity. There were two reasons for this: first, the emergence of further schisms arising from competing reform projects; and second, a general lack of awareness of Ido as a candidate for an international language. These obstacles weakened the movement and it was not until the rise of the Internet that it began to regain momentum.

Ido uses the same 26 letters as the English (Latin) alphabet with no diacritics. It draws its vocabulary from French, Italian, Spanish, English, German, and Russian, and is largely intelligible to those who have studied Esperanto.

Several works of literature have been translated into Ido, including The Little Prince and the Gospel of Luke. As of the year 2000, there were approximately 100–200 Ido speakers in the world.[1]

History

The idea of a universal second language is not new, and constructed languages are not a recent phenomenon. The first known constructed language was Lingua Ignota, created in the 12th century. But the idea did not catch on in large numbers until the language Volapük was created in 1879. Volapük was popular for some time and apparently had a few thousand users, but was later eclipsed by the popularity of Esperanto, which arose in 1887. Several other languages such as Latino sine Flexione and Idiom Neutral had also been put forward. It was during this time that French mathematician Louis Couturat formed the Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language.

This delegation made a formal request to the International Association of Academies in Vienna to select and endorse an international language; the request was rejected in May 1907.[3] The Delegation then met as a Committee in Paris in October 1907 to discuss the adoption of a standard international language. Among the languages considered was a new language anonymously submitted at the last moment (and therefore against the Committee rules) under the pen name Ido.[4] In the end the Committee, always without plenary sessions and consisting in only 12 members, concluded the last day with 4 votes for and 1 abstention. They concluded that no language was completely acceptable, but that Esperanto could be accepted "on condition of several modifications to be realized by the permanent Commission in the direction defined by the conclusions of the Report of the Secretaries [Louis Couturat and Léopold Leau] and by the Ido project".[5]

The International Ido Congress in Dessau, Germany, in 1922

Esperanto's inventor, L. L. Zamenhof, having heard a number of complaints, had suggested in 1894 a proposition for a Reformed Esperanto with several changes that Ido adopted and made it closer to French: eliminating the accented letters and the accusative case, changing the plural to an Italianesque -i, and replacing the table of correlatives with more Latinate words. However, the Esperanto community voted and rejected Reformed Esperanto,[4] and likewise most rejected the recommendations of the 1907 Committee composed by 12 members. Zamenhof deferred to their judgment, although doubtful. Furthermore, controversy ensued when the "Ido project" was found to have been primarily devised by Louis de Beaufront, who was elected by Zamenhof to represent Esperanto before the Committee, as the Committee's rules dictated the creator of a submitted language could not defend it.[6] The Committee's language was French and not everyone could speak in French. When the president of the Committee asked who was the author of Ido's project, Couturat, Beaufront and Leau answered they were not. Beaufront was the person who presented Ido's project and gave a description as a better, richer version of Esperanto. Couturat, Leau, Beaufront and Jespersen were finally the only members who voted, all of them for Ido's project. A month later, Couturat accidentally put Jespersen in copy of a letter in which he acknowledged that Beaufront was the author of the Ido project. Jespersen was angered by this, and asked for a public confession which was never forthcoming.

It is estimated that some 20% of Esperanto leaders and 3–4% of ordinary Esperantists defected to Ido, which from then on suffered constant modifications seeking to perfect it, but which ultimately had the effect of causing many Ido speakers to give up on trying to learning it.[7] Although it fractured the Esperanto movement, the schism gave the remaining Esperantists the freedom to concentrate on using and promoting their language as it stood.[8] At the same time, it gave the Idists freedom to continue working on their own language for several more years before actively promoting it. The Uniono di la Amiki di la Linguo Internaciona (Union of Friends of the International Language) was established along with an Ido Academy to work out the details of the new language.[4]

Couturat, who was the leading proponent of Ido, was killed in an automobile accident in 1914.[4] This, along with World War I, practically suspended the activities of the Ido Academy from 1914 to 1920.[3] In 1928 Ido's major intellectual supporter, the Danish linguist Otto Jespersen, published his own planned language, Novial. His defection from the Ido movement set it back even further.[9]

Digital era

The language still has active speakers today, and the Internet has sparked a renewal of interest in the language in recent years. A sample of 24 Idists on the Yahoo! group Idolisto during November 2005 showed that 57% had begun their studies of the language during the preceding three years, 32% from the mid-1990s to 2002, and 8% had known the language from before.[10]

Changes

Few changes have been made to Ido since 1922.[11]

Camiel de Cock was named secretary of linguistic issues in 1990, succeeding Roger Moureaux.[12] He resigned after the creation of a linguistic committee in 1991.[13] De Cock was succeeded by Robert C. Carnaghan, who held the position from 1992 to 2008. No new words were adopted between 2001 and 2006.[14] Following the 2008–2011 elections of ULI's direction committee, Gonçalo Neves replaced Carnaghan as secretary of linguistic issues in February 2008.[15] Neves resigned in August 2008.[16] A new linguistic committee was formed in 2010.[17][18][19] In April 2010, Tiberio Madonna was appointed as secretary of linguistic issues, succeeding Neves.[20][21] In January 2011, ULI approved eight new words.[22] This was the first addition of words in many years.[23] As of April 2012, the secretary of linguistic issues remains Tiberio Madonna.[24]

Phonology

Ido has five vowel phonemes. The vowels [e] and [ɛ] are interchangeable depending on speaker preference, as are [o] and [ɔ]. The combinations /au/ and /eu/ become diphthongs in word roots but not when adding affixes.[25]

Ido vowels
Front Back
Close i u
Mid e ~ ɛ o ~ ɔ
Open a
Ido consonants
Labial Alveolar Post-
alveolar		 Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n
Stop pb td ka
Affricate t͡s t͡ʃ
Fricative fv sz ʃʒ h
Approximant l j w
Flap ɾ

All polysyllable words are stressed on the second-to-last syllable except for verb infinitives, which are stressed on the last syllable – skolo, kafeo and lernas for "school", "coffee" and the present tense of "to learn", but irar, savar and drinkar for "to go", "to know" and "to drink". If an i or u precedes another vowel, the pair is considered part of the same syllable when applying the accent rule – thus radio, familio and manuo for "radio", "family" and "hand", unless the two vowels are the only ones in the word, in which case the "i" or "u" is stressed: dio, frua for "day" and "early".[26]

Orthography

Ido uses the same 26 letters as the English alphabet with three digraphs and no ligatures. Where the table below lists two pronunciations, either is perfectly acceptable.[27]

Letter IPA English
a /a/ most similar to a as in "father"
b /b/ b as in "stable"
c /t͡s/ ts as in "cats"; also used in the digraph ch
d /d/ d as in "adopt"
e /e/, /ɛ/ most similar to e as in "egg" or e as in "bet"
f /f/ f as in "afraid"
g /a/ hard g as in "go"
h /h/ h as in "hat", "ahoy"
i /i/ i as in "machine", ee in "bee"
j /ʒ/ s as in "pleasure, measure" or g in "mirage, beige"
k /k/ k as in "skin, skip"
l /l/ most similar to l as in "lamb"
m /m/ m as in "admit"
n /n/ n as in "analogy"
o /o/, /ɔ/ most similar to o as in "or"
p /p/ p as in "spin, spark"
q /k/ same as k; used only in the digraph qu
r /ɾ/ tapped or rolled r
s /s/ s as in "east"; also used in the digraph sh
t /t/ t as in "stake, stop"
u /u/ u as in "rude"
v /v/ v as in "avoid"
w /w/ w as in "award"
x /ks/, /ɡz/ x as in "except" or "exist"
y /j/ y as in "yes"
z /z/ z as in "zebra"

The digraphs are:[27]

Digraph IPA English
ch /t͡ʃ/ ch as in "chick"
qu /kw/ qu as in "quick"
sh /ʃ/ sh as in "shy"

Grammar

Each word in the Ido vocabulary is built from a root word. A word consists of a root and a grammatical ending. Other words can be formed from that word by removing the grammatical ending and adding a new one, or by inserting certain affixes between the root and the grammatical ending.

Some of the grammatical endings are defined as follows:

Grammatical form Ido English Esperanto
Singular noun -o (libro) book -o (libro)
Plural noun -i (libri) books -oj (libroj)
Adjective -a (varma) warm -a (varma)
Adverb -e (varme) warmly -e (varme)
Present tense infinitive -ar (irar) to be going to go -anti (iranti) -i (iri)
Past tense infinitive -ir (irir) to have gone -inti (irinti)
Future tense infinitive -or (iror) to be going to go -onti (ironti)
Present -as (iras) go, goes -as (iras)
Past -is (iris) went -is (iris)
Future -os (iros) will go -os (iros)
Imperative -ez (irez) go! -u (iru)
Conditional -us (irus) would go -us (irus)

These are the same as in Esperanto except for -i, -ir, -ar, -or and -ez. Esperanto marks noun plurals by an agglutinative ending -j (so plural nouns end in -oj), uses -i for verb infinitives (Esperanto infinitives are tenseless), and uses -u for the imperative. Verbs in Ido do not conjugate depending on person, number or gender; the -as, -is, and -os endings suffice whether the subject is I, you, he, she, they, or anything else.

Syntax

Ido word order is generally the same as English (subject–verb–object), so the sentence Me havas la blua libro is the same as the English "I have the blue book", both in meaning and word order. There are a few differences, however:

Ido generally does not impose rules of grammatical agreement between grammatical categories within a sentence. For example, the verb in a sentence is invariable regardless of the number and person of the subject. Nor must the adjectives be pluralized as well the nouns – in Ido the large books would be la granda libri as opposed to the French les grands livres or the Esperanto la grandaj libroj.

Negation occurs in Ido by simply adding ne before a verb: Me ne havas libro means "I do not have a book". This as well does not vary, and thus the "I do not", "He does not", "They do not" before a verb are simply Me ne, Il ne, and Li ne. In the same way, past tense and future tense negatives are formed by ne before the conjugated verb. "I will not go" and "I did not go" become Me ne iros and Me ne iris respectively.

Yes/no questions are formed by the particle ka in front of the question. "I have a book" (me havas libro) becomes Ka me havas libro? (do I have a book?). Ka can also be placed in front of a noun without a verb to make a simple question, corresponding to the English "is it?" Ka Mark? can mean, "Are you Mark?", "Is it Mark?", "Do you mean Mark?" depending on the context.

Pronouns

The pronouns of Ido were revised to make them more acoustically distinct than those of Esperanto, which all end in i. Especially the singular and plural first-person pronouns mi and ni may be difficult to distinguish in a noisy environment, so Ido has me and ni instead. Ido also distinguishes between intimate (tu) and formal (vu) second-person singular pronouns as well as plural second-person pronouns (vi) not marked for intimacy. Furthermore, Ido has a pan-gender third-person pronoun lu (it can mean "he", "she", or "it", depending on the context) in addition to its masculine (il), feminine (el), and neuter (ol) third-person pronouns.

Pronouns
singular plural indefinite
first second third first second third
familiar formal masculine feminine neuter pan-gender masculine feminine neuter pan-gender
Ido me tu vu il(u) el(u) ol(u) lu ni vi ili eli oli li on(u)
English I you you he she it he/she/it we you they one
Esperanto mi ci¹ vi¹ li ŝi ĝi ni vi ili ili ili ili oni
  1. ci, while technically the familiar form of the word "you" in Esperanto, is almost never used. Esperanto's inventor himself did not include the pronoun in the first book on Esperanto and only later reluctantly; later he recommended against using ci on the grounds that different cultures have conflicting traditions regarding the use of the familiar and formal forms of "you".[28]

It should be noted that ol, like English it and Esperanto ĝi, is not limited to inanimate objects, but can be used "for entities whose sex is indeterminate: babies, children, humans, youths, elders, people, individuals, horses, [cattle], cats, etc."

Lu is often mistakenly labeled an epicene pronoun, that is, one that refers to both masculine and feminine beings, but in fact, lu is more properly a "pan-gender" pronoun, as it is also used for referring to inanimate objects. From Kompleta Gramatiko Detaloza di la Linguo Internaciona Ido by Beaufront:

Lu (like li) is used for all three genders. That lu does duty for the three genders at will in the singular is not in itself any more astonishing than seeing li serve the three genders at will in the plural ... By a decision (1558) the Idist Academy rejected every restriction concerning the use of lu. One may thus use that pronoun in exactly the same way for a thing and a person of obvious sex as for animals of unknown sex and a person that has a genderless name, like baby, child, human, etc., these being as truly masculine as feminine.



The motives for this decision were given in "Mondo", XI, 68: Lu for the singular is exactly the same as li for the plural. Logic, symmetry and ease demand this. Consequently, just as li may be used for people, animals, and things whenever nothing obliges one to express the gender, so lu may be used for people, animals, and things under the same condition. The proposed distinction would be a bothersome subtlety ...

Table of correlatives

Ido makes correlatives by combining entire words together and changing the word ending, with some irregularities to show distinction.

Relative and

interrogative

 Demonstrative Indeterminate Most

Indeterminate

 Negative Collective
qua, ∅ ita, ∅ ula, ∅ irga nula omna
Individual -u qua ita 1 ulu irgu nulu omnu
Thing -o quo ito 1 ulo irgo nulo omno
Plural -i qui iti 1 uli irgi nuli omni
Adjective -a qua ita 1 ula irga nula omna
Motive pro pro quo pro to pro ulo pro irgo pro nulo pro omno
Place loke ube ibe ulaloke irgaloke nulaloke omnaloke
Time tempe kande lore ulatempe 2 irgatempe nulatempe 2 sempre 3
Quality -a, speca quala tala ulaspeca 2 irgaspeca nulaspeca 2 omnaspeca
Manner -e, maniere quale tale ule, ulamaniere 2 irge, irgamaniere nule, nulamaniere 2 omne, omnamaniere
Quantity -

adjective

 quanta quanta tanta kelka irgaquanta nulaquanta omnaquanta
Quantity -

noun

 quanto quanto tanto kelko irga quanto 4 nula quanto 4 la tota quanto 4
  1. The initial i can be omitted: ta, to, ti, ta.
  2. You can omit the initial a: ultempe, nultempe, ulspeca, nulspeca, ulmaniere, nulmaniere.
  3. omnatempe is correct and usable, but sempre is the actual word.
  4. Instead of irga quanto, nula quanto and la tota quanto you usually say irgo, nulo and omno.

Vocabulary

Vocabulary in Ido is derived from French, Italian, Spanish, English, German, and Russian. Basing the vocabulary on various widespread languages was intended to make Ido as easy as possible for the greatest number of people possible. Early on, the first 5,371 Ido word roots were analyzed compared to the vocabulary of the six source languages, and the following result was found:[29]

Another analysis showed that:

Comparison of Ido vocabulary with its six source languages
Ido English Italian French German Russian Spanish
bona good ("bonus") buono bon gut ("Bonus") khoroshiy (хороший) bueno
donar give ("donate") dare ("donare") donner geben dat (дать), darit (дарить) dar, donar
filtrar filter filtrare filtrer filtern filtrovat (фильтровать) filtrar
gardeno garden giardino jardin Garten sad (caд) jardín
kavalo horse ("cavalry") cavallo cheval Pferd ("Kavallerie") loshad, kobyla (лошадь, кобыла) caballo
maro sea ("marine") mare mer Meer more (море) mar
naciono nation nazione nation Nation natsija (нация) nación
studiar study studiare étudier studieren izuchat, (изучать) estudiar
yuna young ("juvenile") giovane jeune jung yunyi, molodoy (юный, молодой) joven

Vocabulary in Ido is often created through a number of official prefixes and suffixes that alter the meaning of the word. This allows a user to take existing words and modify them to create neologisms when necessary, and allows for a wide range of expression without the need to learn new vocabulary each time. Though their number is too large to be included in one article, some examples include:

New vocabulary is generally created through an analysis of the word, its etymology, and reference to the six source languages. If a word can be created through vocabulary already existing in the language then it will usually be adopted without need for a new radical (such as wikipedio for Wikipedia, which consists of wiki + enciklopedio for encyclopedia), and if not an entirely new word will be created. The word alternatoro for example was adopted in 1926, likely because five of the six source languages used largely the same orthography for the word, and because it was long enough to avoid being mistaken for other words in the existing vocabulary.[30] Adoption of a word is done through consensus, after which the word will be made official by the union. Care must also be taken to avoid homonyms if possible, and usually a new word undergoes some discussion before being adopted. Foreign words that have a restricted sense and are not likely to be used in everyday life (such as the word intifada to refer to the conflict between Israel and Palestine) are left untouched, and often written in italics.

Ido, unlike Esperanto, does not assume the male sex by default. For example, Ido does not derive the word for “waitress” by adding a feminine suffix to “waiter”, as Esperanto does. Instead, Ido words are defined as sex-neutral, and two different suffixes derive masculine and feminine words from the root: servisto for a waiter of either sex, servistulo for a male waiter, and servistino for a waitress. There are only two exceptions to this rule:[11] First, patro for “father”, matro for “mother”, and genitoro for “parent”, and second, viro for “man”, muliero for “woman”, and adulto for “adult”.[31]

Sample
The Lord's Prayer in Ido
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The Lord's Prayer:

Ido

Patro nia, qua esas en la cielo,
tua nomo santigesez;
tua regno advenez;
tua volo facesez
quale en la cielo, tale anke sur la tero.
Donez a ni cadie l'omnadiala pano,
e pardonez a ni nia ofensi,
quale anke ni pardonas a nia ofensanti,
e ne duktez ni aden la tento,
ma liberigez ni del malajo.

 English

Our Father, who is in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.

Literature and publications

Ido has a number of publications that can be subscribed to or downloaded for free in most cases. Kuriero Internaciona is a magazine produced in France every few months with a range of topics. Adavane! is a magazine produced by the Spanish Ido Society every two months that has a range of topics, as well as a few dozen pages of work translated from other languages. Progreso is the official organ of the Ido movement and has been around since the inception of the movement in 1908. Other sites can be found with various stories, fables or proverbs along with a few books of the Bible translated into Ido on a smaller scale. The site publikaji has a few podcasts in Ido along with various songs and other recorded material.

The online encyclopedia Wikipedia includes an Ido-language edition (known in Ido as Wikipedio); in January 2012 it was the 81st most visited Wikipedia.[32]

International Ido conventions

ULI organises Ido conventions yearly, and the conventions include a mix of tourism and work.[33]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Blanke (2000), cited in Sabine Fiedler "Phraseology in planned languages", Phraseology / Phraseologie, Walter de Gruyter 2007. pp. 779.
  2. ↑ "Esperanto-English Dictionary". Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  3. 1 2 Guérard, A. L. "Chapter VII". A Short History of the International Language Movement. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Dyer, Luther H (1923). The Problem of an International Auxiliary Language and its Solution in Ido. pp. 54–74. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  5. ↑ Leau, Léopold (August 1933). "La Vereso pri la Delegitaro en 1907" [The Truth about the Delegation in 1907]. Progreso X (96): 4. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  6. ↑ Jacob, Henry (1947). "II. Ido". A Planned Auxiliary Language. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  7. ↑ Lapenna, Ivo; Ulrich Lins; Tazio Carlevaro (1974). Esperanto en perspektivo: Faktoj kaj analizoj pri la internacia lingvo (in Esperanto). London: Centro de Esploro kaj Dokumentado pri la Monda Lingvo-Problemo. p. 424.
  8. ↑ Harlow, Donald J (4 July 2006). "Ido". How to Build a Language. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  9. ↑ Harlow, Donald J (4 July 2006). "Novial". How to Build a Language. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  10. ↑ MacLeod, Dave (23 November 2005). "Votez! Kande vu komencis lernar Ido?" [Vote! When did you start learning Ido?]. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
  11. 1 2 Chandler, James (6 November 1997). "Changes in Ido since 1922". Retrieved 19 January 2012.
  12. ↑ "Listo di nova vorti propozita da la Linguala komitato dil Uniono". Suplemento a la revuo Progreso numero 290. ULI.
  13. ↑ BOL, Jacques (2004-11-15). "Pri Camiel de Cock".
  14. ↑ Chandler, James (2006-04-16). "Lasta decido pri nova vorti".
  15. ↑ Landais, Loïc (2008-02-17). "Nova DK di ULI por 2008–2011".
  16. ↑ Neves, Gonçalo (2008-08-29). "demisiono ed adio".
  17. ↑ Landais, Loïc (2009-09-28). "Linguala Komitato di ULI".
  18. ↑ Richard, Gaël (2010-02-09). "RE: [linguo] Ube es komitato linguala".
  19. ↑ "Linguala Komitato di ULI". Uniono por la Linguo Internaciona Ido (ULI).
  20. ↑ Jibran (Partaka), Khalil (2010-04-16). "Ido havas nova Sekretario pri Linguala Questioni".
  21. ↑ "Nomino di Sekretario por Linguala Questioni di ULI". Uniono por la Linguo Internaciona Ido. 2010-04-03.
  22. ↑ Madonna, Tiberio (2011-01-01). "2esma raporto de la Linguala Komitato".
  23. ↑ Chandler, James (2011-01-02). "RE: [linguo] 2esma raporto de la Linguala Komitato".
  24. ↑ "La Direktanta Komitato di ULI". ULI.
  25. ↑ De Beaufront, Louis (2004) [1st pub. 1925]. Tejón, Fernando, ed. "Pronunco dil vokali" (PDF). Kompleta Gramatiko detaloza di la linguo internaciona Ido (in Ido). Ponferrada, Spain: Krayono. p. 7. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 August 2015.
  26. ↑ De Beaufront, L (2004). "Acento tonika" [Tonic accent] (PDF). Kompleta Gramatiko Detaloza di Ido. pp. 11–12. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
  27. 1 2 De Beaufront, L (2004). "Kompleta Gramatiko Detaloza di Ido" [Comeplete Detailed Grammar of Ido] (PDF). pp. 7–10. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
  28. ↑ Eventoj, no. 103, ISSN 1215-959X. Ci estas senvalora balasto (Ci is useless ballast). 1996. Available at http://www.eventoj.hu/arkivo/eve-103.htm
  29. ↑ Dyer, Luther H (1923). The Problem of an International Auxiliary Language and its Solution in Ido. pp. 101–121. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
  30. ↑ De Cock, Camiel (1988). "Lexiko di nova vorti" [Lexicon of new words]. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
  31. ↑ ApGawain, Niklas; Hugon, P. D.; Moore, J. L.; De Beaufront, Louis (2008) [1st pub. 1999]. Muelver, Jerry, ed. Ido for All (PDF) (1.6 ed.). North American Ido Society. pp. 42, 52, 70. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2011.
  32. ↑ Zachte, Erik (18 January 2012). "Page Views for Wikipedia, Non-mobile, Normalized". Retrieved 19 January 2012.
  33. ↑ "ULI’s website". Retrieved 10 January 2016.
Additional notes
  1. L. Couturat, L. Leau. Delegation pour l'adoption d'une Langue auxiliare internationale (15–24 October 1907). Coulommiers: Imprimerie Paul Brodard, 1907

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