1. Plain. _Broad_: has no sound like it in English; lom _bare_, labhair _speak_, mall _slow_, alt _a joint_, ald _a brook_, slat _a rod_, dlù _near_.
2. _Small_: like _ll_ in _million_; as, linn _an age_, lion _fill_, pill _to return_, slighe _a way_.
3. Aspirated. _Broad_: like _l_ in _loom_, _fool_; as, labhair _spoke_, lom feminine of lom _bare_, mol _to praise_, dhlù feminine of dlù _near_.
4. _Small:_ nearly like _l_ in _limb_, _fill_; as, a linn _his age_, lion _filled_, mil _honey_, dligheach _due, lawful_.
1. Plain. _Broad_: has no sound like it in English; nuadh _new_, naisg _bind_, lann _a blade_, carn _a heap of stones_.
2. _Small_: like _n_ in the second syllable of _opinion_; as, nigh _wash_, binn _melodious_, cuirn _heaps of stones_. { 18}
3. Aspirated. _Broad:_ like _n_ in _no_, _on_; as, nuadh feminine of nuadh _new_, naisg _bound_, shnamh _swam_, sean _old_[20], chon _of dogs_, dàn _a poem_.
4. _Small_: like _n_ in _keen_, _near_; as, nigh _washed_, shniomh _twisted_, coin _dogs_, dàin _poems_.
In an when followed by a Palatal, the _n_ is pronounced like _ng_ in English; as, an gille _the lad_, an comhnuidh _always_.
_N_, after a mute, is in a few instances pronounced like _r_[21]; as in mnathan _women_, cnatan _a cold_, an t-snàth _of the yarn_; pronounced mrathan, cratan, &c.
1. Plain. Nearly like _r_ in _roar_; as, ruadh _reddish_, righ _a king_, ruith _run_, torr _a heap_, ceartas _justice_.
2. Aspirated. _Broad_: nearly like _r_ in _rear_; as, car _a turn_, ruith _ran_, mòr _great_.
3. _Small_: has no sound like it in English; a righ _O king_, seirbhe _satiety_, mòir gen. of mòr _great_.
The _plain_, _aspirated_, _broad_, and _small_ sounds of these Linguals are not distinguished in writing; but they may, for the most part, be known from the relative position of the letters.
RULE.--L, N, R, _have their _PLAIN_ sound when, in the same syllable, they are immediately preceded by a plain Liquid, or immediately followed by a plain Lingual; also in the beginning of certain cases and tenses; in all other situations, they have their _ASPIRATED_ sound. They have their _SMALL_ sound when, in the same syllable, they are preceded or followed by a small vowel, with or without an intervening Liquid; in other situations, they have their _BROAD_ sound._