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95. This Alphabet is the General Basis, not com- 

 pleted in details (93), of an English-Adapted and 

 Universal Phonetic Alphabet. Its most appropriate 

 name is The Sheldon (English Phonetic) Alphabet. 

 There are two additional Back-Mouth Consonant- 

 Sounds, occurring where the stars are placed in the 

 Table, (Class No. 2), namely, 1. the ch (or Hi) as in 

 the German nacA, and 2. the heavy correspond- 

 ing sound gh, which occurs in Gaelic and Dutch 

 (the old English as in throu(/A, thorn/7?, etc.) and is 

 still extant in Scotch ; sounds which are very primi- 

 tive, but which do not abound in the general range 

 of Languages. These go to augment this Basic 

 Alphabet, when instead of adaptation to the English 

 merely, it is to serve, also, as the Basis of the Universal 

 or International Phonetic Alphabet. There are also 

 two Yowel-Sounds 6 and ii (the French eu and ), 

 and two others e and i, (the French open e and Rus- 

 sian or Sclavic i, which should be added for the same 

 purpose. If then we discard $ and j as compound 

 sounds (99), the number of Sounds to be reckoned 

 as belonging to the Skeleton Universal Phonetic 

 Alphabet is 36, the Skeleton English Phonetic AJ- 

 phabet being, in this way, reduced to 30 sounds ; 

 but it will be found practically more convenient to 

 retain the and j, (as if they icere simple), and 

 so to reckon this English Alphabet as containing 32 

 Sounds. It may be observed, in passing, that the 

 Theoretic number of a full Universal Alphabet is 64 

 sounds ; and that 32 is the half of that number. 



96. None of these (six additional exceptional) 



