Charles Duke Yonge

An Introduction to the Latin Tongue: for the Use of Youth Charles Duke Yonge

The Latin Letters are thus written : C apitals. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ. Small, or common. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvxyz. Of these Letters, six are named Vowels; a, e, i, o, u, y. The rest are called consonants. A. vowel makes a full and perfect sound of itself, as e. A consonant cannot be sounded without a vowel, as be. Consonants are divided into liquids, double letters, and mutes. The liquids are ,m, n, r: The double letters are J, x, z: The remaining letters are called mutes. A syllable is a distinct sound of one, or more letters, pronounced in a breath. A diphthong is the sound of two vowels in one syllable. There are six diphthongs, ae, ai, au, ei, eu, oe Besides these six we meet with ua, ue, ui uo, sounded in one syllable, occurring only after the consonants, gq, or s; but they want one distinguishing property of diphthongs, for diphthongs are naturally long in quantity, while these are sometimes long and sometimes short. And some consider that in these combinations ushould be considered a consonant, and written v.
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