Blair Collection > Practical grammar of the antient Gaelic, or, Language of the Isle of Man, usually called Manks

A GEAMMAE OF THE MAXKS LANGUAGE.
CHAPTER I.
Of the Letters.
The GcqAtal Ltttcrs.
ABCCH*r)EFGHIJKLMNOPPHQRSTUVWY.
Small Letters.
abcclidefgliijklmnoppliqrstuvwy.
The Alphabet consists of seventeen single and two double con-
sonantSj and seven vowels, viz., a, e, i, o, u, tv, y.
Of the consonants fourteen are mutable, viz., h, c, cli, d,f, g,j,
h, ni, p, ph, q, s, t.
The immutables are I, n, r, which always retain their sound
and alter not.
Thej, A-, and q consonants are properly no Manks letters ; yet,
as we have no single characters of our own to express their
sounds, we have adopted those of the Roman alphabet, and
instead of di, according to the Irish, and si, according to the
Welsh, we use^; as Jee, Godj Juan, John — Ir. Dia, &c. The
* This letter does not orig;inally belon;^ to our alphabet ; but, like the Welsh
is a modern corruption oti ; as, iustcud of tens, heat, we i-ay chiass.