. Introduction to the natural history of language . Fig. Fio. 5. Similarly, corresponding to the complete dental stops /, d^come the nasal evasion n (the relation between n and dbeing exactly as between in and b), the spirants p, S, s, s,and the liquids /, r. Answering to the palatal stops k, g,etc., we have a nasal n and spirants ch (in German ic/i), y,etc. With the velar stops q,g^ etc., may be placed the spirantcJi (in loch) and the nasal ?;. The Aspirate.—If, the mouth being open, breath withoutvoice is expelled from the lungs with effort and made toexperience distinct friction in the cavi
. Introduction to the natural history of language . Fig. Fio. 5. Similarly, corresponding to the complete dental stops /, d^come the nasal evasion n (the relation between n and dbeing exactly as between in and b), the spirants p, S, s, s,and the liquids /, r. Answering to the palatal stops k, g,etc., we have a nasal n and spirants ch (in German ic/i), y,etc. With the velar stops q,g^ etc., may be placed the spirantcJi (in loch) and the nasal ?;. The Aspirate.—If, the mouth being open, breath withoutvoice is expelled from the lungs with effort and made toexperience distinct friction in the cavities of the stiffenedlarynx itself, the result is the spiritus asper, or so-called aspirate //. In kind of articulation it is therefore voiceless ;in point of place it is sometimes called faucal. The following table may serve as affording a workingsynopsis of classifications of the more common elements ^in familiar alphabets :— (i) Sounds like r/i in church (r) andyin judgeare not simple sounds,but consonantal diphthongs, and are pronounced as
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