The Universal Language of John Wilkins:
the Real Characters
The Essay includes thousands1 of entries, each of which corresponds to a real character. However, Wilkins only provides a few examples of these (for example, the prayers here and here)
According to Mary Slaughter, in 1678 Andrew Paschall proposed revising the Essay and providing charts that would show each entry in English and in the real characters, along with the pronunciation (Slaughter 1982, p. 177). In this spirit, this page provides charts of this style for each of the forty genera and all the grammatical particles, possibly for the first time since 1668.
The charts are available as a Google Sheet (embedded below and as a separate page). Note that the original spellings are used throughout; for suggested modern spellings for individual words, see the Dictionary page.
