THE SHELLUH LANGUAGE. 



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further difficulty that the natives who learn to write their own 

 language in Arabic characters are usually those who also acquire 

 the Arabic language, and in so doiug learn to adopt Arabic 

 phrases and forms of speech. In the following table I have in- 

 troduced all the Shelluh words given by Jackson and Washing- 

 ton, of which I have been able to find equivalents iu Kabyle or 

 Tamashek', and have endeavoured to adopt a uniform mode 

 of orthography. The vowels are intended to have the sounds 

 to which they correspond in most European languages, and not 

 those peculiar to England. Th and sh have nearly the same 

 sounds as in English ; gh before « or i has the hard sound ; and 

 r' indicates the peculiar sound intermediate between the 

 guttural and the ordinary r, which European travellers indicate 

 sometimes by r, and sometimes by gh. In several instances 

 synonyms are given in brackets. 



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