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interruption to make a modified liquid; and the vowel and scraping effect being simul- 
taneous, they cannot be represented by a consonant characteg preceding a vowel one, as 
4a. We propose a minute < below the vowel character. 
571. The sanscrit visarga (:) is a final “strong aspirate” (Sir W. J.) which becomes s 
in languages which do not admit it, as the Hebrew final of Jonah, Jeremiah, is either pro- 
nounced s, or supprest. The Sanscrit sound was probably pronounced with the mouth 
not sufficiently open, causing the breath to strike along the fauces and palate, thereby re- 
ceiving a modification suggestive of y ands. We represent it by the figure 5, which is 
sufficiently like one of the German forms of capital 4, whilst it is equally suggestive of s. 
572. The following systems of notation have been proposed or used for the members of 
this, and of the preceding contact. 
FAUCALS. || LARYNGALS. 
Q Q 2 h hb > g 
Hebrew, p 5 4 = n XN y 
Volney, q x y h h* ‘ a* 
Lepsius, q z op h h i : 
Richardson, k kh gh h h si 
Miiller, q ‘h h h h : *h 
Paulmier, k/ kh ree h h’ 3 
Kichhoff, K Ke, G’ H HY *a, &e 
Ellis, q x Of h h* I a™ g 
S‘ufiic’, ‘k h g h ce 
Riggs, g h 
* A peculiar form on this basis. ** The Arabic letter. } With a short vertical medial line. 
LARYNGO-FAUCAL. 
Q q. 
573. In the Waco of Texas, the entire surface from the glottis to the Q position, form a 
contact which is opened suddenly and independent of the lungs, upon a vowel conforma- 
tion, producing a clack or smack like that which accompanies the separation of the closed 
palms when wet with soap and water. The preceding closure bears some resemblance to 
the incipient act of swallowing. We describe it from our mode of producing it, and we 
were said to be the first person with whom it was not vernacular, who had acquired it.* 
* We pronounced Arabic g, gh, and gh, and Welsh J, rh, as ascertained from descriptions, before they had been 
heard from natives, but we did not recognise hamza from the descriptions, although we were familiar with the 
phenomenon. 
