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Eichhoff, who took his pronunciation from the mouth of Rammohun Roy, makes it French 
ch, Eng. sh, and Max Miiller does the same. Bopp makes it different, he marks it ’s, the 
English sh sound being assigned to the fourth cerebral of §491. Lepsius (Alphabet p. 
42.) and Ellis, thinks it y. By the description of Wilkins, it may be a sound between s 
and f, or a flat s, or one formed a little posterior to the ordinary point of contact. We 
have been accustomed to use f for it, but as this is unsatisfactory for a doubtful sound. 
Eichhoff’s character ¢ may be used. y must have occurred in the antecedents of Sanscrit, | 
although it seems foreign to the genius of Sanscrit itself. 
518. The liquids of the palatal contact are a kind of J (yea) made at the palatal point, 
and as Eng. w, v, and r, z, are permutable, so j falls into J, and its surd aspirate into f. 
519. Hence the word soldier (=soldyr, or soldy er,) is apt to fall into soldjv; and nature 
(=net-) v, net’yy v, or nety v,) into netf{+, or netfov. 
520. Jotacism (yotacism) is the forming of J or some other allied sound simultaneously 
with a continuous consonant made with the outer part of the tongue, as s, 7, /. Let the 
back part of the tongue be held in contact near the J (yea) point, and the apex upon J, 
in forming Ui in million, when the effect will be muljy on, as the French jille is fily , or filly, 
or (eliding /,) fi’). 
521. f, 3, mast be yotacised with the true 3 (yea,) because an attempt to do so on the j 
basis, would produce a sound between mute and liquid, like the fusion of English », z. 
522. There is probably no true yotacism (§ 519) after labials (p, b, m,) and gutturals 
(cay, gay,) or abrupts, for how are pj, gj, (or py, gy,) tj, ty, to be sounded except in suc- 
cession? The simultaneous effect, like that cited in million (properly mvJjen,) is there- 
fore cut off in the Russian pjet’y (five, whilst in s')em (seven) it is apparent, with a surd 
liquid preceding the sonant which meets the vowel. 
523. The palatal liquid seems to be present in the French gn, Spanish fi, as in cigogne 
(=siGon)j ,) no (=niny 0.) 
524. Castrén’s notation of real or supposed yotacism requires numerous types, as he 
passes a curved line () through the stem of the affected elements, as |, r, n, (the right 
side,) t, d,s, z, c, (ts.) A small palatal or guttural ‘J’ (as the case may require,) would 
be more economical, and might be understood to be surd after surds. Mr. Ellis uses ], a 
character made by removing the dots of j. 
525. GUTTURALS. 
1 ¢, in car. > 6, buch. eG, eb: * 7, Swiss vibrant. 
> G, in get. ° G, betrogen. ‘ ¢,(y)konige * y, Ellenic id. 
. g ) 
° 7G) sing. Ge oun Lipsey lene? 2 5,, nasal, § 547. 
