Indian Languages in J\^opth America. 2ii 



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express this sound by dj or dg, as the French cbmmouly dc 

 writing foreign words. In the Mdaj/ Bible and Testament, 

 printed by the Dutch in 1733 (the latter of which was reprinted 

 by the English in 1818) the Dutch have adopted a character 

 compounded of D and J closely united thus, DJ, dj, which would 

 l>e preferable to dg; but in that case, again, if we strictly 



re 



d 



as the D 



done in that work. This would be a little awkward to us and 

 not free from ambiguity ; as, for example, in the name of the 

 place where the English edition of this Malay Testament was 

 reprinted, and which is expressed conformably to the aliovc 

 notation thus, Tjalsi, (to be sounded as if written TJehiJ we 

 should not immediately discover the plain English name, Chelsea, 

 In the case of this, as well as other letters of the alnhahp.t. it 



id, 



alo 



advantage of having charactersi 



will im- 



mediately point out to the eye many affinities, which under an 

 irregular orthography are discoverable only by the ear; and, 

 perhaps, ia the present instance the character dj, which is less 

 curahrous than dsh or dzhj will sufficiently resemhle tsh to an- 

 swer that purpose. 



K^ when single, may preserve its usual power, which is fa- 

 miliarly known to the European nations, though the letter itself 

 is not used in all their alphabets. 



ICIi may be used to denote the sharp guttural, which the 

 Germans express by ch and the Greeks by x 5 while the corres- 

 ponding ^at guttural, as before observed, may be denoted by gh. 



