Hieroglyfic: or, a Grammatical Introduction to an Universal Hieroglyfic Language

The text proposes a rational system for a universal hieroglyphic language, combining pictorial signs and vocal sounds and offering definitions of grammatical parts across English, Welsh, Greek, and Latin. It blends linguistic method with physical, metaphysical, and moral reflections on human nature and the origins of speech, analyzes articulation organs and etymologies, and provides rules and specimens for composing a hieroglyphic vocabulary based on perceived primitive meanings of names. Speculative correspondences and sample analyses of prepositions and roots illustrate the approach and its aim to reconstruct a more original, philosophically grounded ordering of language.