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Excerpt from A Comparative View Of The Spanish And Portuguese Languages, Or An Easy Method Of Learning The Portuguese Tongue: For Those Who Are Already Acquainted With The Spanish Letters that form a sound by themselves are called vowels; and those which can only be sounded with another letter, con sonants. The union of two vowels pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, is called a diphthong. The collection of the letters of which the words of a lan guage are formed, is called the Alphabet. Words considered as signs of our thoughts, are distinguished into variable and invariable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.