Standard Alphabet for Reducing Unwritten Languages And Foreign Graphic Systems to a Uniform Orthography in European Letters
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This alphabet, however, is not based on a sufficiently comprehensive system of phonology, and the single letters consequently are not arranged according to their natural affinities. The Sanscrit and other written languages were not taken into account, and the former use of compound consonants is supplied partly by altering the form of letters, partly by com- bining them with diacritical signs, as 9, t/, A, r, f, or 8^ or «, or «, for our «, w, ^, j^, s. In the Autumn of 1852, the author of the ...present paper, being in London, had the opportunity of discussing this subject (which had occupied his mind for several years) with some of the most influential members of Missionary Committees: and he was in- vited by the Rev. H. Venn to furnish him with a development of his alphabet, which appeared suitable for general adoption and conformable on the whole to the "JRwZ^5." Mr. Venn piro- posed to transmit such an explanation of the alphabet to the Missionaries. Prevented, at that time, from complying with this wish, he simply communicated a tableau of the alphabet, which was inserted by Mr.
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