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HIEROGLYPHS.

s

Su





T

1

Ta

T

n

—*-

Su



Ti

i

St



S=>

Tu



■

SHa

Hi

ti

Tu



- i

*
SHa





U

Ui

OY

i

SHi

Ui





This table exhibits all the syllables commencing with conso-
nants and ending with vowels, and consequently the nearest
approach to the alphabetic. It corresponds as nearly as pos-
sible with the Coptic alphabet, which contains thirty-two
letters, comprising the whole Greek alphabet, in order to repre-
sent all the sounds of the Greek words introduced into the
language, and seven additional sounds which were not repre-
sented by the alphabet of that language; but ten of the letters
of the Greek alphabet are used for Greek words only, and the
true number of Coptic sounds is consequently reduced to
twenty-two. It is, however, possible to reduce the hieroglyph-
ical alphabet to even narrower limits, by admitting that there
was only a dialectical variation in the form of t and k, in