Indian Languages in JVorth America. 



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A 

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 D 

 E 

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P 

 R 



U 

 V 



Y 

 Z 



TABLE OF 



ALPHABET. 



as in the English wovd.jarjafher, &c. (But see the .Vote on the Vou '« n. S53 ' 

 asm P.nglish, French, &,c. ' ' 



rth 



J 



as in the English word there j and also short e, as in met, &r. 

 as in English, &c. 



O English g hard, as in game^ gone, &.c. 

 H an aspiration, as in English. &.c. 



K 

 L 



N 



as in marine, machine, (or English ee) ; and also short i in him. 



as in English. 

 Cthe same. J 

 ft he same J 

 (the same.) 



O English long o, as in rohe ; and also the o in some, among, ahove, &c. uliich is 



equivalent to the English short u in rub, tun, &c. (Cut sec the remarks on 

 this letter, p. 357.) 

 as in English, &.c. 



J 



S as in English at the heginninir of a word. 



T as in English, &c. 



'!h 



English r. German u', Russian b, Alodern Greek /3. 



asm Enelish : Frpnrh rrn. 



h : French ou. 



as in the English words, yet, you, &c. 



as in English, &c. 



A 

 E 



5 



J 



O 



» 



u 



\ 



as in ang (s 



NASALS. 



IS in fab 



\e JSTote c 



But foi a better description of 



longy as in ei/ng (pronouncing tiie ey as in they ;) and shorty as in the word 



Portuguese em fii)al. (See J)rote on the JMasals^ p. 357 ) 



and short as in ing ; Portuguese im final. 



ginseng ; 

 longy as in eeng- 



JK'^asa^s. p. P. 57) 

 long, as in onmg (si>unding the ow as in own ^^ French on; 



ndl l*his character will also he used for o short nasalised. w\i\chh very 

 nea:ly the same with ong in among^ as this Jaiter is eijulvilent to unz in 



See Walker^ s Diet. Principles. JSTo. 165. See also iho, wV9te$ 



(See wWe on the 



Portuguese om 



lung* &.C. 



JVtfSfl/s 



as in oong ; Portuguese urn final. 



ong 



ponds toouroin/or, nor, &c. And,aslhave proposed (in p. 

 vocal sound, when not nosalised^hy aw^ so it would be most strictly conforma- 

 ble to my plan, to denote the same vocal sound, when it is nasalised^ by ow or 



aw. But perhaps the letter a itself, with the cedilla (/?) may he used without 



inconvenience for this broad nasal sound, and we may still, in the common 

 vowels, reserve the simple a to denote the sound it has in tlie word father^ 

 and not the sound of aw. For it may be found, that the first nasal 

 sound in this Table is not common in the Indian langua<;e8; in which case it 



would be best to use the simple a for the broad nasal here mentioned. 



