CHAPTER IV. 



INHERENT MEANINGS OF THE ELEMENTS OF LANGUAGE. 



108. The present chapter will contain a Tabulated 

 condensed statement of the Inherent Meanings of each 

 of the 32 (or, including - n , the 33) sounds of the 

 Skeleton or Abridged (Basic) Alphabet, which is at 

 the same time the Basis of the English-adapted 

 Phonetic Alphabet, and, with a few additions, that of 

 the Universal Phonetic Alphabet, applicable alike to 

 all the Instinctual or Old-Style Languages and to 

 Alwato, the New Scientific Universal Language. 



109. To cover more completely the usual range of 

 Yowel and Consonant-Sounds occurring in the va- 

 rious languages, it will be requisite elsewhere, to add 

 the six other sounds above specified, ch, gh, 6, ii, e 

 and i (95). The Special Meanings of these six 

 sounds are, however, mere shades of Meaning of 

 related sounds which are herein given, and are, there- 

 fore, omitted from this elementary exhibit. The Al- 

 phabet so augmented may then be regarded as the 

 common or usual International Alphabet. All othor 

 less prominent and intermediate varieties of Sounds 



