The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1849-09-12
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man o, as in Gothe; the Hnngarians
have also another similar vowel for
which We have no type; is in an . with
two upright dashes or accent marks
oYerit, or5with two dots and one dash
between them; it represents a longer.
and sharper sound than the o !; Il is Ike
zoo ii moon; at like ain ute, like the
French a and then q II printed either
with two dashes, or with Two dots and
a dash between them, representing ii
longer and sharper sound Of the same
kind.
So much for the vowels, and noWSfors
the consonants. Those I'VE do not mem
ton arc essentially the same as in Eng
jlish. f,s5
G is always hard, except when fol,
lowed BY q final J; 9 is never used, ex-
cept with OF Z ;;ts is like our ch in
chslrch J; c5 like Is in bits or ike the \
German s;;5 has the force of y in gear;
s of sh; So Of in son; IS is like the
French g in genie, though rather lar
der, and also like ours in azure; Is and
ia are; as are cs and cz, respectively
like ch in church and is in BITS; q is new
er used at all.
Beside these, there are tho sounds
gy, H, my and ty which puzzle the
present teacher badly as to them. The
y attached, gives to the several letters
a peculiarly soft additional sound like
that heard in the French !, aiouille, or
the Spanish n, or the italian 90, i'll
SEgnore the addition of q to q also, !.
modifesit by mingling with hitsomething
of the sound Of our d, SO that it has
much the force of D in June; indeed,
Blackwood writes Naija, as the easiest
way Of getting Magya, correctly over
English lips; Iy is much, though by no
means exactly, like u in the French
word reveillc orthe Spanish word ldno:
ay like g,s in signore ]; ty like no sound,
that ne can think of in any other Ian
guage, though in our word Virtue, the
tu of the final syllable has some rcsem-
blancc to it.
The difference, however, between
these sounds in tho Magyar, and i'll
other languages, is that in the Magyar,
they constantly occur at the end of
words, whereas in other languages they
arc always iu the middle, which renders
them casyto pronounce. The exact
Magyar pronunciation of them can on
ly be learned from a living teacher, and
thenit takes a pretty keen car and fex-
iblc tongue to get it correctly.
There, that will do for one lesson;
and now we advise all parties who pique
themselves on pronouncing every word
in the world with perfect precision, to
prcservc't this essay and profit by itas
much as theycan.-N. X TRIBUNE.
PopuLATioS OF HusGARY,-Dr. Kraitser,
the Professor OF Modern Languages in the
University of Virginia, is delivering series
ef lectures in Boston on the warm Hungary,
OF which ,hnt excellent papcr, the Boston
Traveller, is publishing well prepared OK.
tracts. From report in that Journal OF a
recent lecture, we learn that the Magyars
number 4, 100000; there are. l,200,0O0 Scia-
vonians; Of Croatiaus 2,..GO,0 900; Gcrmans
about ,5G0 900; Bulgarians, a kind of ScIa-
vonians, 10000; Jews 2A,U00 Freuch 6,G00
Greeks 6,000; and Armenians 1900 to LOCO
----making grand total OF l2,sU0,000. Of
this number 6,UGD,0O0 are Catholics 2,6i,0,-
900 belonging TO the Greek Church, who
obey the Patriarch OF Constantinople. The
Magyars are tie representatives Of the nation
What ia technically called Colvanistic, is. &
their religion, and it may be called the Mag
var religion
The ISLAND OF CuBA,--This Island is
ga miles in extreme Length with a width
varying from 90 to i 7 miles, and covers an
area OF $4,000 square miles, being about the \
size of the State of Maine. II contains a
population at the present time Of 100000 81
of which about 100000 are whites, 100000
arc free colored, and 900. 600 slaves. lis i'm
ports in 1Ssi7 were S32,3S9,ll9, of which
S7,09i,975 were from the United States. It's
exports dutina the same period were S27,.
99S,770, of which $I2y394,976 were to the
United States. In 1917 the number of arri. "
walls at its ports was ;;3740, and the number of
clearances 3346. I;s principal harbors arc &
the finest in the world. The atnonnt OF Amer.
ican tonnage employed in the trade with Cuba
!is A76, ,773 tons. II has 1913 miles OF railroad
completed and in successful operation, aud
81 miles in course OF construction, Itiswell
waterod by numerous rivers, and its surface
except in the central portion of the Island,
diversified with mountains. Only two tilths
of It's surface arc cultivated. OF the romans
ing three-tifths, new unused, one is probably \
worthless, leaving ono halfof its agricultural
resources uuleyeleped. The climate is so
genial Tint il yieldstwo crops a year of many
ofits productions. II also abonnds in matters
ais for manufacturing psrposeR, and its noun
iaihs contain iniuesIof copper which are work
ed to considerable advantage.
LAND TARRANTs Ninety thpusand land
warrants have been issued to soldiers who
served in the Mexican war giving away 10
them as bounty l3,Se0 900 acres. Estiina-
ting the value OF this lanil at 81 25 an atrc,
we have an aggregate Of Ssl7i23e,000.