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The syllabify of Priest-Kings, not to be confused with their
set of seventy-three ‘phonemes,’ consists of…four hundred and eleven
characters, each of which stands of course for a phoneme or phoneme combination,
normally a combination. Certain juxtapositions of these phonemes and phoneme
combinations, naturally, form words. …a simpler vocabulary, or even an
experimentation with a nonscented perhaps alphabetic graphic script, would have
been desirable linguistic ventures for the Priest-Kings, but…they were never
made. With respect to the rather complex syllabify, I originally supposed that
it had never been simplified because the Priest-King, with his intelligence,
would absorb the four hundred and eleven characters of his syllabify more
rapidly than would a human child his alphabet of less than thirty letters, and
thus that the difference to him between more than four hundred signs and less
than thirty would be negligible."
"…except for lexical additions, they wish to keep their language much as
it was in the ancient past."
Priest-Kings
Page 101
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