By using pieces of well-known words that contain the
been called by writers treating this subject, the polysynthetic.
abbreviation, the omitted parts of words being.html">being implied or
here that is generally overlooked. These compounded words, to a
the Indians gave many of the European things were mere
dash at the French or English sounds, as in the word "Yengees" for
Yankees.
Of course an attempt at fixed symbols for words was an unhappy
facility of making words out of pieces of words, or compounded
successfully by means of a dictionary, until the human memory
mighty debris of his symbols left him, although in the main
Through that heroic, unaided struggle he gained the first true
that an uneducated man, of a race we are pleased to call.html">call
was developed through several ages of Phoenician, Egyptian, and
sounds, such as we call vowels, and dividing sounds, styled by us
progress of his discoveries, but finally settled on the six.html">six--A, E,
guttural.html">guttural. He next considered his consonant, or dividing sounds,
all the sounds required to make words in their language. He first
primary, the G and K being one, and sounding more like K than G,
N, QU, T, DL or TL, TS, W, Y, Z.
It will be seen that if these twelve be multiplied by the six
seventy-two, and by adding the vowel sounds, which maybe
guttural V, or sound of U in UNG, does not appear as among the
into the ramifications of so many sounds, as in STA, STU, SPA,
to meet this demand. This he simplified by using a.
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