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As Represented by the Union System of Romanization. THE true pronunciation of Chinese sounds can only be learned from aC hinese teacher. A large majority of the sounds have no true equivalent in English; hence the student should bear in mind that any Romanization used does not represent English sounds, but Chinese sounds. This fact can not be too strongly emphasized. The committee which formulated the present Union System of Romanization did not have in mind the representation of Chinese sounds by their nearest English equivalents so much as it had in view the production of a complete, simple, and systematic table whereby all the Chinese sounds should be represented by Roman letters or combinations thereof and this without the use of diacritical marks. It should be borne in mind by the student that this system does not divide a word into all its phonetic elements; but rather does it follow a plan well-known to Chinese scholars; viz., that of dividing each syllable represented by aC hinese character into two elements one initial and one final. THE INITIALS. The Initials are divided into aH igher ,a Middle or A spirated ,and a Lower Series. 1. The HIGHER SERIES comprises sounds represented by p, 771, v, t, ts, s, I, n, ny, ng, kt I cy, kiv, pure vowel sounds, i and w. 2. The MIDDLE or ASPIRATED SERIES comprises sounds represented by pf, tts lc ch, kw h, hy and hw. 3. The LOWER SERIES comprises sounds represented by b, m, v, d, dz, z, I, n, ny, nj, g, j, gw, (or loiv vowel sounds, slightly aspirated), yand
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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