FRENCH

GRAMMAR.

Our French language, as also the Latin, has twenty-two letters, which it also, like that one, divides into two parts, namely, Vowels and Consonants.

Vowels are letters which, when uttered alone, produce a voice and sound: and they are five in number, a, e, i or y, o, u.

Consonants are letters which cannot be pronounced alone without vowels, but when joined with vowels they produce a sound: these are, b, c, d, f, g, h, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, x, z.

We have particular forms of letters approaching much to the Italics, except that they do not lean so much, but are written upright, like the Romans, though a little thicker: their body is short, and their lower parts and heads are shorter. For example,

a b c d e f g h i l m n o p q r s t u x y z.

a b c d e f g h i l m n o p q r s t u x y z.

In printing books, we today mostly use Roman letters, sometimes Italics.