is why "language," derived from the Latin word lingua, "tongue", is frequently called "tongue" in the various idioms of the world. From the front of the tongue come thirteen consonants [t, d, sh, zh, s, z, th, dh, tsh, dzh, l, r, n]. From the lips come five consonants [p, b, hw, w, m.]
Exercise on the Provenience of Vowels and Consonants
| Vowels | Consonants | ||||
| put | pit | hit | den | dhen | pin |
| not | hui | kit | shin | tshin | bin |
| waotjr | boi | get | aezhur | dzhin | faen |
| fadhjr | bau | sing | sin | letjr | hwen |
| bjrd | bai | yuc | zingk | rjn | wen |
| maen | mucn | ten | thin | nic | men |
| men | mict | ||||
The Grammar of English
THE noun shows only two forms: singular, referring to one object, and plural, referring to two or more objects. This difference is shown by Illustration 2 which depicts the singular, "bird," as distinguished from the plural, "birds." A possessive case is the only remnant of earlier case formation and is formed like the plural by adding s, but distinguished orthographically by placing an apostrophe ['] before the added s in the singular and after it in the plural: "bird's," "birds'."
Singgyular aend Plucral—Singular and Plural.
bjrd Illustration 2bjrdz
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