CHAPTER VIL 



METHOD AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF ALWATONI WORD- 

 BUILDING. 



146. The Ultimate Elements of Speecli (or, other- 

 wise, the Primitive Elements, according to the order in 

 which we consider the subject) are, practically, as 

 results from all that has been shown, the Vowel and 

 Consonant-Sounds, represented by the Alphabet of 

 Signs or Letters. These correspond with the so- 

 called Ultimate Elements of Organized Substance 

 (Chemical.) But, the proper Working Elements of 

 Language are different from these and correspond 

 with the so-called Proximate Elements of an Organ- 

 ized Object, the human body, for instance. These 

 are the Two-letter (or Bi-Uteral) Root-words, which are 

 produced by compounding one consonant with one vowel- 

 sound, as BI, (bee), BE, (ba),BA, (bah), or, inversely, one 

 voivel with one consonant-sound, as IB, EB, AB, etc. 



147. To make the primitive combinations of the Vow- 

 el and Consonant-sounds into these Two-Letter-Root- 

 words, seizing the appropriate meaning of the r<>t- 



ll r ord so formed as logically derived from the mean- 



