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I am not thirsty. Neck urfedaag ikra. 



How many years have you been here ? Kadesh assegassen themeurtaye a- 



kyth ? 

 A good man fears nothing, Ergez illalee oury tagadt ikra. 



A bad man is afraid, Ergez defoual tagedt. 



IV. 



Kutes on the foregoing Vocabularies. — From Mr. Skater's 



Comnmnicutions. 



The modes of spelling adopted by tlie Swedish Gentleman 

 and Jewish Interpreter who compiled these Vocabularies are 

 to be attended to. The latter seems to have had in view 

 the French pronunciation of letters, the former that of his 

 own language or the German. Therefore the letter j, when 

 it occurs in his vocabulary, is to be pronounced as our y 

 before a vowel, and the ii like the u of the French language. 

 Tlie sound wliici) he expresses by the diplitliong re, he states 

 to be a middle sound between the French a and e, resem- 

 bling the e apertum, in the French words bete, tete, and our 

 diphthong ai in hair, fair. The th in his vocabulary is to 

 be pronounced as the English th in the. Ti.is combination 

 of letters does not appear in that of the Jewish Inteipreter. 

 The guttural sound of the Spanish jota or German ch is ex- 

 pressed by kh. 



In the vocabulary of the Jewish Interpreter, the Kal)vle 

 words are explained in French : in tliut of the Swedish Gen- 

 tleman, partly in French and partly in English, Init principally 

 in the latter language. We have here used the English 

 throughout. 



There are in the Berber, as in the Arabic, several sounds 

 of the letter s, one of them approaching to that of the F.ng- 

 lish sh. It is expressed in these vocabulaiies l)y sh or ich. 



There is a sound in this language peculiar to it, which Mr. 



