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Art. VII.—Priority of Labial Letters illustrated in Chinese Phonetics1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

J. Edkins
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Panini made gutturals precede labials; but this was because, having given to a precedence among vowels, it was natural to place gutturals in the first position among consonants ; for a is allied to k as o (or u) is allied to p, and i to t.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , April 1887 , pp. 207 - 222
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1887

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References

page 212 note 1 Tsu and keu in Mandarin, which has dropped final k.

page 215 note 1 H is described in Bell's Visible Speech as emission of breath with the throat wide. This is quite behind the point where k and g are formed.