I46 ALPHABETICAL SYSTEM OF THE 



either fide of it, a liquid is formed peculiar to the 

 Britijh dialect of the Celtick.' We have found, how- 

 ever, this very found in the mark before us when af- 

 fociated with /. If this be the found reprefented by 

 //, as in the common furname Lloyd, the notation is 

 but ill-fuited to give an idea of its powers. In the 

 combination of this mark with apah % the only letters 

 of afibciation are m and /; and with araii\ h and m; 

 the fymbol being formed, as in the original, of the 

 component parts. 



or the fufpended w> is fubtended to every letter, ex- 

 cepting that with which it correfponds in the alphabet. 

 Its fymbol is w, but fubjecT: to certain changes and 

 fuppreffion, the particular inftances of which will ap- 

 pear when the vowels come to be treated of. This 

 mark with the letter h, and the one immediately pre- 

 ceding with the letter w y form two combinations for the 

 fame found; which is that of wh in the word what. 

 In its afibciations with the other marks, it is governed 

 by the fame rules, and governs the fame letters as al- 

 ready related under their feparate and combined forms; 

 with an exception, however, to its homogeneous cha- 

 racter in the alphabet. With Span, and apan hmach'- 

 hwe and hlach y hwe y we have the genuine found of our 

 third vowel forming a diphthong with the fifth ; as 

 miuwa y hmiuwa, bltuwa; the diphthong in thefe in- 

 ftances having precifely the fame found as in our word 

 lieu: but, to preferve the notation here laid down, it 

 mud be typified by y y as mywa y hmywa y hlywa ; 

 though it might more properly be reprefented by its 

 conftituent parts, as in the firft example. 



3» 4> 5- 



Thefe are the three feries of vowels and nafal marks,, 

 The firft is called arwi, or written, fimply ;* the fe- 



cond 

 * A letter is alfo faid to be mrm when uninflctted. 



