Excerpt from A Sechuana Reader: In International Phonetic Orthography (With English Translations) Not having been able, however, to discover any such principles, we have thought it well for the purpose of this book not to strive after simplification in this matter, but to provide materials which may help others towards the elucidation of the problem presented by these vowels. We have done this by using italic letters to indicate every case Where alternation between 1 and e or 0 and 0 appears possible. A comparison of all the cases, and probably also an investigation of the pronunciation of other natives, will be required before the principles governing the use of the sounds i and e, o and 0 can be satisfactorily established. We wish it, then, to be clearly understood that the use of these italics is to be regarded as a provisional device only; when once the rules regarding the use of the vowels in question have been discovered, the cases of alternation will not require to be specially indicated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.