220 FHO.NOGRArHY. 



c c c c 



15 Fl r Ger. French, r French Ihial arbre. 



16 L (oi- better, B ) 'L Welsh, and French final hi lahle (T A B L') 



\ V7 \>J\ ma sneer, Gcnnan Ittn ! 



I 18 |\| - French final n or preceding vowel, as in mon (^ J\.) 



I 19 N ^^^Sy '^ ^ groan. «"' a wheeze. ' a gasp, (generally on the 



^ vowel Q.) 



c\ c 



20 "K ("^^ G) ^^^' 1? Runic. 21 K (or G) name of the Ger. letter 

 g, Spanish J, Russian F. 



J ^ C.I-/ . c 



22 K (or K) K Runic. 23 K or K Germ. ich. Irish c. Gr. ;*$. K 



haish Arabic guttural. 

 24 X (.^^ D) in day. 25 X Eng. fZ/t in this. Modern Greek <^. 



c\ c 



(T=D) 



/ c c/ 



20 T (*^^ T) 27 X ('or Tj Eng. tJi in thin. Rom. Russ. Coptic 6. 



[ 2S p (or B) E"g- ^- 29 p for B) I^al. Fr. Eng. V, Fuis. B. Ger. w. 

 } Irish b'. 



I 



30 P (or P) Eng. P. 31 P for p) Eng. Fr. Sec./. Modern Greek C. 

 S 32 3 Eng. z, in his. 33 S Eng. s in treasure. French j. 

 f 34 3 Eng. z, in hiss. 35 3 Eng. in sure. Ger. sch. Eng. sh. Fr. ch. 



The characters between parentheses are mere substitutes of which I 

 do not approve. The consonants of the first column are "Zene," and 

 most of them admit of aspiration fas I have elsewhere explained) ac- 

 cording to the second column. Moreover, s is an acute z, and z a grave 

 .V. V is an aspirate J, or grave-aspirate p. The English use of the sin- 

 gle character s shows how intimately the sounds of the acute, grave, 

 acute-asp. and grave-asp. are connected, and as cognate languages do not 

 change the radical letter of words common to two or more, my notation 

 appears to be the only one adapted to philological purposes, especially 

 the comparison of dialects and allied languages. The German uses 

 dinte and tiiite indifferently, that is t varies from acute ("T ) ^^ grave 

 ("Y). The eye catches the similarity of the German silhcr and the 

 English silver, if b and v be represented by pointed characters, and so 

 on in an infinity of cases. 



I represent long quantity by - medial by •• and short by • beneath 

 or above the vowels, and mark accented syllables by accentuals over the 

 vowel, and thrown towardb the co-accented syllables, as in baker, bashful. 



