62 NASALIZATION DEFINED. 



Sounds are, however, so practically fundamental as the 

 30 (or, including and,/, the 32) sounds which occur in 

 the English Language, as shown in the preceding 

 Alphabetical list ; (although the th and dh, occurring 

 in English, are also rare sounds with reference to 

 the general range of languages.) Modifications and 

 Intermediate Shades, especially of the Vowel-Sounds, 

 require additional letters, as previously stated, or the 

 marking of some of the letters here used, (93, 000) to 

 print, phonetically and satisfactorily, even the English, 

 and still additional ones to print all the numerous 

 languages of the earth. The details of this extensive 

 and intricate subject belong to other works. (See 

 especially The Vocabulary to the " Basic Outline of 

 Universology," words, Psychology, Theology, Uni- 

 versology and Tikiwa ; and " The Alphabet of the 

 Universe," and " The Universal Alphabet.") What 

 is presented here is simply a Platform or Common 

 Foundation of A UNIVERSAL ALPHABET, from 

 which modifications and adaptations, for Special lan- 

 guages, and for various degrees of Phonetic nicety 

 may take their departure ; in a word the Skeleton of 

 a Universal Alphabet, as explained above. 



97. The Nasalization is a mere tinge of the Nasal 

 Consonant quality (Nose-sound or Twang) impressed 

 xm pure Vowel-Sounds. Some languages have the 

 whole series of vowels so affected or in other words 

 a complete series of nasalized vowels, as the Choc- 

 taw, for instance. The French, has four vowels of 

 this order, usually represented by the French letter- 

 combinations an, in, on and un. It simplifies the 



