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TABLE OF TPIE ALPHABET CONTINUED. 



DIPHTHONGS. 



Ai English i in pine. 



Au English ow in how, nowy &c. and ou in oin\ 



lu English u in pure ; French iou. 



Yu to be used at the beginning, as iu maj be in the middlej of words. 



ADDITIONAL CONSONANTS. 



DJ, nsH, or nzii, English j and dg^ in judge ; French dg* 



»H, as in the English words, this^ that ; the ^ of the Modern Greeks. 



Ds^ Dz ; TSj Tz, English ts in the proper name Betsy ; German and Italian z / 



German c before the vowels e and i^ Polish c before all the 

 vowels J Russian Tsi. These four compounds being nearly 

 alike (as Mr.Du Ponceau justly observes to me) the ear of the 

 writer must direct him which to use, as the respective conso- 

 nants predominate. • 



GH, See kh below. 



Gz, or Gs, English a? in example^ exact. 



nw, English ivh in wliaty when. 



KH, guttural, like the Greek x ? Spanish x, g, and j ; German ch ; Dutch 



gh. I have in the preceding paper given the preference 

 to M for the purpose of expressing this guttural sound j but 

 g'A pronounced as the Irish do in their name Brogheda, &c. 

 may be better in certain cases where this guttural partakes 

 more of the flat sound, gy than of the sharp one, k. It may be 

 observed, thatg/i has been already used in some of the books 

 printed for the use of the Indians. 



KS, English a? in maxiniy exercise. 



KSH, xi in complexion; xuin luxury/. The formation of this combi- 

 nation would be obvious,- but as the sound ig actually often 

 used in the Delaware language, I have thought it best to 

 liotice it. 



Kw English qu 



Lv or Lr, 



//, Portuguese Ih^ Italian gl before i. 



Spanisli 



XV or Ni, as in the English proper name Buwjan^ and the words onion^ 



opinion, &c. 



TH, in the English word thin; Greek 5-, 



TS 



rz 



See ds above. 



"^sHj English c/i, in cAair; Spanish eft in viuch ; Italian c before 



eand ij German tsch; Rusbian ^. 



^ WT 



5 



ZH 



«.T lu un^z ucia.ware language. 



, as sin pleasure; French and Portuguese j/ Polish z, with 



a comma over it (i). 



