410 VOCABULARY OF LANGUAGES. 



which Kadii pronounced Mesid, IruSy Thile. We 

 always doubted between d, th, and s; between ch^ k, 

 and gy he. Of the last letters c/?, or 1", seemed to 

 sound hard at the end of words, and, in con- 

 junction, to incline to a softer g^ Inguch, Ingaga 

 gamilate Rossa : I understand not, I understand 

 not the language Russia. * 



* On mature consideration, it has been judged the most ad- 

 visable to print the following vocabularies, precisely as they 

 are in the German work, without attempting to reduce them to 

 English orthography, as these words would, in all probability, be 

 very different from what they would appear, if written by an Eng- 

 lishman, from the pronunciation of the natives themselves. We 

 may add, that the long vowels in German have more resem- 

 blance to the French than to the English, the u however being 

 pronounced like the English oo. The consonants have, in ge- 

 neral, nearly the same power as in English ; sch is invariably 

 our sh, and not sh, as some pronounce it. W is pronounced 

 Hke our v, the German v being pronounceed like^^ It is for 

 this reason, probably, that M. Chamisso uses the English W, as 

 he calls it, our pronunciation of to being, in fact, foreign to the 

 German language. — Note of Translator. 



