Abstract
Having observed a great difficulty in truly writing what is pronounced, or truly pronouncing what is written, either in our own or foreign Languages, by the Ordinary Alphabets now in use, arising either from the want of some Letters, or the differing Pronunciation of the same Character or Letter in differing Languages and the irregularities of its various Sounds in any one Language; I saw a necessity of some such expedient as I have here attempted, V
iz. An Universal Alphabet
, which should contain an Enumeration of all such single Sounds or Letters as are used in any Language, which I have endeavoured by Examining all those Languages, which hitherto I have considered: Altho' this my attempt may be not new, but what before by others hath been attempted, yet I hope that herein I have done will not be unuseful.
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