
The Consonants are these following and signified by the greate Letters 1 1 Darke 2 Tast 3 Name 4 DHis 5 THing 6 daNse french 2 1 John 2 CHest 3 seiGNeur fr: 4 Jean fr: 5 SHall 3 1 Game 2 Came 3 soNG 4 Gave ld: 5 daCH ld: 4 1 Bond 2 Pond 3 Man 4= 5= ld: low dutch 5 1= 2= 3= 4 Vaine 5 Fame 6 1= 2= 3= 4 Zeal 5 Seal 7 Hand 8 Round 9 Wand 10 Youth 11 Land LLyfr welch part of these above mentioned Consonants are ordered in six sets, each set having five distinctions of sounds Ye first of each in the fower first sets I consider as primitives the other four following in each set as derivatives Ye 4th immediatly relating to the first and the 5th to the 2d. the first set hath a 6th relating to the 3d being a softer pronounciation of the same. The fourth set hath the 4th and 5th places emty for want of words to expres their sounds in, and therefore must be instanced by the expression of the mouth it self, yet may they easily be conceived, to wit, in the fourth set the 4th and 5th not expressed by considering the expression of those of those numbers in the other 3 sets for the same variation as have the 4th and 5th sounds in the said 3 sets to the first of each, the same variation are the 4th and 5th wanting in the fourth set to have, in relation to the first of that set, The same is to be observed in the 3 first sounds wanting in the 5th and 6th set NB. That the Greater letters whether in the beginning or midle or end of the words in stanced are the Consonants or vowels designed 2 There is a more Gutturall Expression of the Consonants in the third set of which I can give no present instance
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- Author
- Francis Lodwick
- Reference
- CLP/16/4
- Series
- Cl.P
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Ideas for an universal alphabet by Francis Lodwick, From The Royal Society, CLP/16/4
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