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Indian Languages in JCorth America, 



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ponent vowels a 



a 



+^ 



liich practical convenience could 

 vn oil and ow, and adopti 

 It need hardly be ol)sei 



i 



Quisite in any Indian woi 



u, there seems to be erery reason. 





our 



those nations. 

 3uld bo found 



powers of the two component letters in the ai, in and au, and 



f 



) 



of the common diaeresis 



»r 



ay be done by means 



CONSONANTS. 



B. 



The letter jB may have the power which it generally 



the European lang 



1? 



0. 



The letter C may be entirely dispensed with 

 very changeable power in the European languai 



* 



and because 



its two most common sounds may be perfectly expressed by K 



says of it—" We lay by the 



S. 







venerable Eliot 



C, saving in CH, of 



tb 



is frequent use in the 



language.'^* But, for the CH, it will be found ad 

 should substitute another notation^ which 



will be mentioned in 



place under the letter T. 



D ; DH ; DS or DZ ; and DJ, DSH or DZII. 



The letter Dj when single, may have its usual power. 

 Dh may be conveniently used to denote what Walker calls in 

 English the/af sound of thj that is, the sound which th has in 



* Indian Gram, p, 2. 



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