ORDER OF SOUNDS. 



and also of Alwato ; or, in a word, of all possible human 

 speech. Marked or modified types will be elsewhere 

 introduced for the intermediate Sounds, down to any 

 requisite degree of fineness in the shades of sound. 

 Such is the simple character of The Universal Li 

 Alphabet. This Skeleton Alphabet as it may be call- 

 ed by analogy with a skeleton regiment in the army, 

 which has its Pivots or officers and its ground-plan 

 complete, to be subsequently filled in, up to its entire 

 complement, with subalterns and privates though 

 characterized, in a general sense, as English, is so 

 only because the basis-distribution of 'sounds is the 

 same for English as for all languages ; hence the 

 adjective, English, may be omitted or parenthesized. 

 The Nasalization (97) is needed at this day even for 

 English as we have almost daily need for the trans- 

 literation of French words containing this sound. 



94. The different Classes of Sounds are introduced, 

 in the Table, in the order in which they will be sub- 

 sequently considered ; the Vowels first, the S 

 Consonants next, etc. There are three bastard or less 

 perfect vowels, not hitherto mentioned, represented 

 by Italics (000), namely a, u, o, pronounced 1. as a in 

 mare or ai in a?'r, or like a in at prolonged ; 2. as 

 u in cz(t, cwrd ; and 3. as aiv in <m*ful or o in or (short 

 in not.) The eight vowels of the Vowel-Scale, (in the 

 following Table) are, therefore, pronounced, (in the 

 order of their accompanying numbers), as follows : 



i e a a u oou 



eei (in feet) ; a in fate ; ai in air ; ah in ah ' ; u in um ; a in ell ; o : oo. 



The diphthongs retain the exact values of the united 

 * vowels. (The ai will occur for a.) 



