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Introductory Remark
The Orthography of this
Dialect is for the purpose of
simplicity, reduced as much
as was practicable to the
Elementary sound of the vowels
being the same system as has
been generally adopted in
the South Sea Islands
[word crossed out] Accordingly the vowels retain the
same sound wherever they occur
with very few & slight varations.
Like most languages this language
has a few letters peculiar to itself
[words crossed out] which of course cannot be so precisely
expressed by our letters.