LANGUAGE OF AWA AND RAC HA IN. 1 4.9 



late, terminated by a kind of catch. It feems, how- 

 ever, to drop this diftinction when followed by a grave 

 accent, as tara y juffr; a property that it would appear 

 to pofTefs in common with the other vowels diftin- 

 guifhed by acute accents. It is inherent in every 

 vowel, which may be the. reafon why it is placed laft 

 in the alphabet. The accent of the third is as re- 

 markably grave as the other is acute; the fecond form- 

 ing a medium between both, being our broad vowel 

 in all-, while the fourth is a guttural, analogous to the 

 Arabian kaf; a fuppreflion of the final utterance by 

 which this is characterized as a confonant, being all 

 that is necefTary to form the found before us. 



i, i, it. 



The two fir ft are accented in the fame proportion 

 as a and a, only with fomewhat lefs force. The laft 

 is pronounced with an effort unufually harfh, by a 

 ftrong inflection of the centre part of the tongue to- 

 wards the palate. It feems to form a found between 

 the third vowel of the fyftem and the actual articula- 

 tion of its final letter, with which a foreigner, from 

 mere oral knowledge, would moft probably be in- 

 duced to write it. No doubt, however, exifts of its 

 being a vowel, as attention to the mode in which a 

 native pronounces it will fully demonftrate. The con- 

 ftituent found in iipah being our third vowel, in the 

 inflection of thofe letters which take that mark with 

 the three vowels before us, the variation in their afTo- 

 ciated and unafTociated capacity is not eafily difcerni- 

 ble at flrft, but the difference is difcovered in a day 

 or two's practice by the^aftiftance of a native. 



U, Uy Up. 



The grave and acute accents of the laft feries cha- 

 racterize the two flrft of the prefent -, the third being 



K 3 formed 



