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Practical cosmophonography: a system of writing and printing all the principal languages, with their exact pronunciation, by means of an original universal phonetic alphabet ...
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- illustrated by numerous plates, explanatory of the calligraphic, steno-phonographic, and typo-phonographic adaptions of the system; with specimens of the Lord's prayer, in one hundred languages: to which is prefixed, a general introduction ... By Francis Fauvel-Gouraud ..
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- Cosmophonography
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- English, Multiple languages
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- New York : J.S. Redfield, 1850
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- 186 pages, approximately 46 leaves of plates : frontispiece, tables, plates ; 23 cm
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- ocm01438003, ocm01438003
- Frontispiece engraved by W. Howland.
- Posthumous work edited by James Ballard; the introduction (p.[5]-66) was written partly from the author's notes, by Rev. Francis Marion Craig.
- Practical cosmophonography is an attempt to develop a system, derived from shorthand, that would accurately represent the sounds of any language. Fauvel-Gouraud broadly samples from many languages for his examples of the written Lords Prayer, including Chinese, Sanskrit, Georgian, Syriac, etc. but his phonetic samples are limited to the West.