The principle of phonetic spelling as stated above applies to many words, but by no means to all.
We do not know that Chiriquian culture had achieved a hieroglyphic or a phonetic system of writing, but it is worth while to call attention to the form and the manner of employment of some of the devices found upon the pottery.
It would be comparatively easy to identify literal borrowings from phonetic art or even from hieroglyphic art, as the form and arrangement of the devices are quite unlike those observed in pure decoration.
Such isolated inflectional changes as saveit into savoit, which are cases of regular phonetic changes, are not noticed here.
The difficulty disappears if we assume the root tib or dib to have been originally the phonetic equivalent of a gesture expressive of the notion of covering as well as of that of measuring.
The ancient Mexicans also, to some extent, developed phonetic expressions out of a very elaborate system of ideographic picture writing.
This theory, which makes each radical of language to be a phonetic type rung out from the organism of the first man or men when struck by an idea, has been happily named the "ding-dong" theory.
The comparative-ending -er is mostly syllabic on account of the phonetic nature of the final r, and even if slurred, it does not entirely lose its syllabic character, e.
All the poetic rhythms of the Indogermanic or Aryan languages are based on one or other of these phonetic qualities of syllables, one group observing mainly the quantitative, and the other the accentual principle.
In Modern English verse the absence of a thesis between two accented syllables sometimes arises from phonetic conditions, i.
At this point we have to note that there are two kinds of phoneticdifference between syllables, either of which may serve as a foundation for rhythm.
Such phonetic changes as the substitution of P for Q spread in an almost mysterious way through languages.
Nor can a phonetic change of the kind be taken as necessarily corresponding to any racial or political boundaries.
Running our eye down the table we note that our alphabet provides for certain phonetic variations by turning the Latin I into I and J, and VV or UV into double U = W.
The ancient Mexican script supplies examples of the change from the pictographic to the phonetic stage.
But the Chinese dictionaries contain above forty thousand words, and it is the symbols for each of these which are provided by the phonetic symbols.
If the characters which are similar in these two names express the same sound in each cartouche, their purely phonetic character is at once made clear," and the recovery of the Egyptian alphabet was only a question of time (figs.
Nevertheless, so workable a set of signs has secured a footing which, made firmer by the art of printing, is not likely to be disturbed by any processes of phonetic change which mark the course of speech.
Tylor adds that there is no sufficient reason to make us doubt that this purely phonetic writing was of native Mexican origin, and that after the Spanish Conquest it was turned to account in a new and curious way.
Is there any other country to which we can turn which possessed a phonetic alphabet in any respect kindred to this Phnician alphabet?
It contains a description and explanation of the phonetic alphabet of the Mayas.
It is a surprising fact that we find in Central America a phonetic alphabet.
And it must be remembered that these resemblances are found between the only two phonetic systems of alphabet in the world.
The fact that so old and enlightened a people as the Chinese have never reached a phonetic alphabet, gives us some indication of the greatness of the people among whom it was invented, and the lapse of time before they attained to it.
I venture to note as a very curious phonetic peculiarity, that we have in the English language a large number of monosyllabic words ending is sh, all of which are expressive of some violet action or emotion.
Reprinted in Phonetic spelling, with a preface and contents in Caxton's orthography, and a fac-simile page of the original work.
The supposed pronunciation of the same represented by the Phonetic alphabet.
As no literal formula can be made to represent the phonetic elements of the speech of chimpanzees, I have taken a new step in the art of writing by framing a system of my own, which is rational in plan and simple in device.
Although the sounds made by the chimpanzee can be imitated by the human voice, they cannot be expressed or represented by any system of phoneticsymbols in use among men.
Of all systems of writing, however, the phonetic system is the one most in accordance with logic and natural law.
To learn phonetic writing means learning two languages instead of one.
In the meantime he has already become an expert user of the spoken language, including the complete phonetic system unconsidered in written speech and a most complex and beautiful system of intonation unknown to orthographies.
The learning of a perfectly natural alphabet is in itself of educative value; it inculcates the idea of phonetic writing and serves once for all as an essential preparation for the study of any number of foreign languages.
To those who have wrestled for years with difficult and tangled orthographies a phonetic system of writing, the acme of ease and simplicity, may appear bewilderingly difficult.
An enthusiastic adherent of the phonetic theory will not necessarily endorse the view that rapid and fluent speech should precede slow and distinct speech.
We may therefore designate as studial all forms of reading, reading aloud or mental reading, reading from traditional orthographies or phonetic transcriptions, reading of isolated sounds or of connected passages.
Let us note here, with all the emphasis which is due to such an important point, that the exclusive use of a phonetic script in the early stages generally leads to a greater accuracy in the traditional spelling which is learnt subsequently.
Had the name stood alone, we might reasonably have questioned the correctness of the reading, especially as the signs or monograms, with which it is written, are admitted to have no phonetic power.
Phonetic Transcription of Indian Languages, Report of Committee of American Anthropological Association, SI-MC, Vol.
All Indian words are written in simple phonetic English, the vowels having their normal alphabetic sounds.
In this bulletin, the following phonetic system will be used.
Not only does the vocabulary present constant analogies to other Semitic dialects, but the phonetic laws and the grammatical forms are equally of this type.
There still remain a considerable number which are either wholly unknown, or of which the meaning is known, while the phonetic value cannot at present be determined.
After a few days, reproduce thephonetic forms from the words as ordinarily written, and again the ordinary word from the phonetic form.
Never write down a phonetic form without fully understanding its meaning in every detail.
To the child, any system is a clog and a hindrance, and quite useless in teaching him phonetic values, wherein the voice of the teacher is the true medium.
For older students, however, especially students at home, where no teacher is available, phonetic writing by means of diacritical marks has great value.
Rougé was the first to determine its phonetic value: "it should be read Paû, and designates a body of gods.
Pott, and Curtius, and others stood up against Bopp and Grimm, maintaining that there could be nothing irregular in language, particularly in phonetic changes.
Another phonetic of the later alphabet, belonging to the XXVI.
This is phonetic here that I have [referring to paper].
Practice in the repetition of unfamiliar phonetic elements.
The highly complicated syllabarium of the Eastern Semites is reduced to a phonetic system; we might almost say to an alphabet of about 40 letters.
The same custom and deity are found in the Avesta, only the name has become Haoma, according to the phonetic laws of the Bactrian language.
Valades in 1579 gave an American phonetic alphabet, representing each letter by an object of whose name it was the initial in some language not the Aztec.
This is a well-defined system of phonetic characters, which Clavigero and Humboldt do not seem to have been aware of.
The name is an excellent specimen of the syllabic-phonetic writing.
The use of the phonetic element by the Aztecs was first noticed by the early missionaries in their efforts to teach Church forms.
In these all ideas of simple phonetic signs utterly disappear.
A very large part of the characters employed were representative; many conventional symbols are known; and the Aztecs undoubtedly employed phonetic paintings, though perhaps not very extensively in the higher grades of development.
Arbitrary signs are also introduced, like those of the phonetic alphabets of Europe.
It is now proven beyond cavil, that both Mexico and Yucatan had for centuries before Columbus a phonetic system of writing, which insured the perpetuation of their histories and legends.
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