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Mr. PicJceriug on the Oi'thogruj)7iy of the 



of the ludian languages, who may adopt the proposed orthogra 



of the vowels, will find no difficulty 

 inner as to constitute the required 



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s. 



It 



y not, 

 of the 



1 



denote in English by 



o* 



hid 



accustomed to 



I have found, for examp 



d 



the 



g 



g Chero- 

 e of that 



y have the diphthon":al sound of the Ions: i in our word 



jiinGf and of the long u in our word p 

 ;(h admitted to he diphthongs by g 



of 



len 



of 



gramma- 



ey have always been treated by the Continental 



of Europe, who generally d( 

 other by iu or iou ; the sou 

 English by ah-ee and ee-oo, 

 words as closely together as 

 To express these diphth 

 the vowels, will probably ir 



ai and the 



of which 



ay be 



d 



the two parts of 



• 



al sounds?, therefore, which, like 

 ue dialects be found to be more 

 d in others more open, we cannot do better than to adopt 

 )pean ai and iu ; to which we may add yu, to be used at 

 beginning of words, for the reasons which will be mentioned 

 )nsidering the combinations Li and Lij, under the letter L 



Eur 



r 



We shall also want a character for th 

 ote in English by on in our, and oiv 



ph thong which we 



in now, E 



modes of writing thi 



phthong would be 



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people of Europe ; for they would in general pronounce 



to the 

 oth of 



them like oo in Eng 



Now 



nations in tb 



guages would express this diphthong by au 



5ir own lan- 



ept that the 

 French would write it aouj ; and as this orthography would 



naturally follow from tlie sounds to be denoted by tlie tw» 



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