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d 



f 



h 

 i 



k 



Pronuneiiition and Heraarkg. 



ah, a as in father 



c/i, (' ,is in benefit 



Kii 



ish <■■ ; i as in ravhie : the sound of cc in /«r(. 



Thns, not Feejee, but 



as in mots 

 long ?5 as in fiut^ 



English /, as in - 

 "?(' as in hn-n' 



-1 of ,v (hat it [ Ceiehes. 



tlie sound of no in boot. 



Thus, not Z<:nl,in, Ijut 



.-,-.--,-■■■■,■, Tlius, not /•'«ii7»iHj hut 



, IS slightly different from aljove 



I IS the sound of the tno Italian \'ovfeIs, but 'is fre'- 

 j quently slurred over, when it is scarcely to be dis- 

 tuiguished from ei/ in the Knglisli theii 



Knglish b. 



is always soft, hut is so nearlv tlie so 

 j should he seldom nsed. 

 ; H Celebes were not alread\- rei-o-Tiised it uonid lie 

 ! written Selebes. 

 \ is ahvaj-s sounded as in church 



i English d. 



j English/, ph shonid not be used for tlie soimd of f. 



. , , , Thus, not Ilaiphimq, hut 



is always hard. (Soft ry is given by ;) 



is ahvaj's pronounced when inserted. 



English ./. J>j should never he put for this sound 



I'-nglish h. It sliould always lie put for the hard c. 



i T, ,, . , , ^ , Thus, not Corea, Init 



The Oriental guttural . 



I is another guttural, as in tlie Tnrlii~h .. .'. 

 I- As in Eng'ish 



has two separate sounds, the one hard as in the 

 English word Jlnger, the other as in sinqer As 

 these two sounds are rarely employed in the same 

 locality, no attempt is made to distinguisli between 

 them. 



As in Knglish. 



should never he emplojcd ; vk is given as Ho 



[■As in English. 



Kxainplc.^, 



Java, Banana, Somali, 

 liari, Suiikin. 



Tel-el-Kebir, OKIeh, 

 Y e z o, M e d i n a, 

 Le\-uka, Peru. 



l''i.ji, Hindi. 

 Tokio. 



Zulu, Sumatra. 

 Shanghai, 

 l-'noh'au. 

 Macao. 

 Beirut. Beilul. 



ChingcJiin. 



llaifong, Nafa. 

 Galapagos. 



■lapan, .Jinchuen. 



Korea. 

 Khan. 

 Dagh, (Tha;ci. 



is al-.vays a consonant, as in yard, and therefore should 

 never he used as a temiinal, i or e being substi- 

 tuted 



Thns, not Milcindi'my, but 



„ ... not Kwaly, but 



English z 



Accents should not generally be used, but where there 

 18 a very decided emphatic syllable or stress, which 

 affects the sound of the word, it should lie marked 

 b.y an acwie accent. 



Kwangtung. 



Kikiiyu. 



Mikindiini. 

 Kwale. 

 Zulu. 



Tongatiil ni , Galapagos 

 Palawan, Sarawak. 



