Report On the Present State of Our Knowledge of Linguistic Ethnology Made to T
Report On the Present State of Our Knowledge of Linguistic Ethnology Made to T
Haldeman, Samuel Stehman, 1812-1880
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A soft lisped d is assigned to Lappish, which is allied to a lisped r. The latter quality seems to remove it from English sonant th in then. This curious sound should be compared with the peculiar Irish Z, which the reporter first noted as an 1-sound mixed with sonant th y but subsequently determined: to be the sonant analogue of the Welsh surd aspi- rate 11, to which it would bear the same relation that thy bears to thigh. A sound between /and h is mentioned, — probably Greek phi; and a conson...ant between I and r. Castren assigns a peculiar u to Ostiak, and the Russian vowel bl to Samoiede. The latter (which has been heard by the reporter) may be de- scribed as a long and short vowel akin to English and German i in still* but formed with a more open aperture, and the an- * This is not the short quantity of the vowel in Jield, and cannot be correctly represented by (?) of the Latin and Italian alphabets. 8 ON THE PRESENT STATE OP OUR gles of the lips drawn back. It has the pinched quality of German o and U, but without the pursed lips used in forming these well-known vowels.
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