1889-90.] 



THE DENE LANGUAGES. 



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Moreover, the signs of that alphabet are disposed without logic or method 



^^''^u'.V^ '''^°"' ^'*''' ^^"" '' '' ^ ^"^^t^'°" °f syllables. No' 

 effort had been made to remedy this palpable deficiency until five years 

 ago when the writer of this paper devised the following alphabet which 

 thanks to the methodical disposition of its signs and the consequent 

 facility in ascertaining their value, has since yielded the most encoura^- 

 ing results. ^ 



THE NEW METHODICAL EASY AND COMPLETE DENE 



SYLLABARY. 



IVt/Zi A (E E I O U 



TD(1) CDD3nU 

 Th a D D D Q O 



T G D E) D Q O 



PB (1) 

 (1) 



K G, Kr 



X> Kh 

 K, Kr 



N 

 M 



a D D B Pi u 



E 3 3 3 m uu 



a B B B m CO 



a B B B DQ DJ 



c J _D i) n o 



^ 3 ^ ^ ^ Uu 



A/one 



h 



// 



\ 

 V 



(2) 



Y 



Q 

 Q 



L 



Tl 



f 



Tf 

 Tf 



z 



Tz Dz 



s 



Sh 

 Ch 

 Ts 

 Ts 



JVif/i A CE E I O U 



C2 9 e> Q ^ Alone 

 01 ^9 [0 ^ 2 S 



e/ ^9 ^ ^ s s 



C D 



a !o 

 c ri 



G O 

 s 3 



ID ^ Qa 



© 13 Q O 



© Q n 



S 3 ^ C3 



:d 3 n u 



£D 3 Q O 



3 3 m ^ 



© 3 ffl ttj 



3 © ffl dy 



3 3 m ra 



Hiatus • — Accessories : 



(3) 



Z 2 



(4) 



s s 



Explanatory Notes. -(1) These letters are not differentiated in Dene 

 (2) ^ IS the nasal ;.. (3) z is the French/ (4) s is phonetically intermediate 

 between $ and .. * is prefixed to proper names, and o is suffixed to syllables 

 the vowel of which it is necessary to render long. 



