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fierce fears léaf léave strife strive height hide 
late laid leak league bat — bad jot joined 
rope robe reciueeed hart hard lout loud. 
367. Consonants have a recognised quantity in Dacota, where s and sh occur short and 
long. ‘When marked thus (s’) the sound is prolonged.” (Riggs’ Dictionary, Washington, 
1852.) Thus s’a (sha) is red, and s’a (sha) to shout. Dr. Lepsius has improperly 
transferred the mark of shortness to ‘s’ to represent English sh, and to ‘z’ for zh. a. The 
m is long in Italian séd¢ndo punto (point,) but not in Spanish, which has it in ‘Cervantes’ 
=(érzantes, where it bears the accent. 
368. The length of continuous consonants may vary with the sonant or surd phase of 
the succeeding one, as the short secondary vowels are seldom lengthened in English. 
The following are examples of n, 1, ng, r, m, s, thus lengthened. 
since sin’s hank hangd blurt blurrd dam pt damnd 
pinch impinge pence pens else ells dosed dozd 
dint  dinned wilt willed start starred etcht edged. 
369. SCHEME OF THE VOWELS. 
A 
47400. B urn. 2374. 
1 2402. XK Suabian, 7301. 
% odd. 2405. XK ada. 2378. 
© Ital. 2411. My, 
OFr. 7412. #3. € Suab. 73902. 
OWA, sooooonomocdccca9 © thére. 7388. 
Obey. © 7430. Ebb. 2384. 
¥ ; € Gudyrat’hi. 
Q Ital. 2418. Ui 2436. Qight. 391. 
V 7420. UW? 2437. © 7392. 
wo? M21. Y] Swed. u. 24140. € ? pola. 
TU ayo0t 9498.1. Sees IE OGGRCS: oy coo0 cca sa docp 1 it. 2395. 
Wl wes ogeoong sop sons oDDN y 1 Chreeih gogo onooDDKO On mar ne. 2399. 
2439, LU Welsh w. 
370. The most characteristic of the vowels is that in arm, art, father, commonly named 
Italian A. It is almost universally represented by its proper letter A, a, a, which cannot 
be departed from except to degrade the system of notation, and in some degree to injure 
the etymologic uses of the Roman alphabet. For if ‘A’ may represent an E sound to 
accommodate some English words, it should represent O (as in nose from nastis,) to 
accommodate those languages where the interchange seems to be on the labial side, 
as in Russian, Tawgy-Samojedic (Castrén, § 7,) and Hungarian. (Dankovszky’s Lexicon, 
1833, p. 10.) 
