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A Grammar of Colloquial Chinese, as Exhibited in the Shanghai Dialect

Note 2 — PART 1. ON SOUND.

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If different symbols were invented for the long and short vowels, so that syllables only should be considered long and short, this anomaly would disappear. All alphabets are deficient in vowel marks.

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