LANGUAGE OF AWA AND RAC HAIN. I5l 



words, even for a and a, when inflecting the other let- 

 ters with wacb'we, fufpended. Like u, u, the fym- 

 bol in aflbciation with wacb'we, when inflected with 

 thefe four vowels, is redundant. 



ait, aip; aich, aic. 



Our diphthong in ay, or joy, which feems to be 

 compounded of the broad vowel in all, or rather its 

 correfpondent fhort one, followed by the third, pro- 

 nounced with the acute piercing accent defcribed in 

 treating of the firft vowel, conftitutes the found of the 

 two firft of the prefent clafs of vowels ; while the 

 narrower found in eye or my, with the obtufe abrupt 

 termination mentioned under the third clafs of vowels, 

 peculiarizes the two laft. Taken in two's, as they ap- 

 pear above feparated by the Jemicolon, their founds are 

 congenial. The two firft form the exception taken 

 notice of under the third clafs of vowels. 



qui. 



The diphthong of the firft and fiftb vowels, already 

 fo fully defcribed in the fyftem, with the guttural ter- 

 mination of at 3 is the found of this vowel. It is 

 fometimes abbreviated, by an elifion of the final let- 

 ter, when a point above is fubftituted in its room.* 



The najals arc now only left for difcuflion; their 

 peculiar vowels, as well as moft of their nafal termi- 

 nations, are to be found either in the fyftem, or in the 

 foregoing obfervations. The only thing therefore that 

 remains, is arranging them into clalfes, and making 

 a few trifling ftridtures. 



— • .1. • 

 an, an. 



No elucidation is here necefTary. A fpecies of ab- 

 breviation is fometimes obfervable in writing, when 



K 4 the 



* See Plate I. c. 



