As for the former, it is soft-sounding, and very rich and flexible.
Sir Henry says that it sounds something like modern Greek, but of course it has no connection with it.

It is easy to acquire, being simple in its construction, and a peculiar quality about it is its euphony, and the way in which the sound of the words adapts itself to the meaning to be expressed.

Long before we mastered the language, we could frequently make out what was meant by the ring of the sentence.

It is on this account that the language lends itself so well to poetical declamation, of which these remarkable people are very fond.

The Zu-Vendi alphabet seems, Sir henry says, to be derived, like every other known system of letters, from a Phoenician source, and therefore more remotely still from the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing.
Whether this is a fact I cannot say, not being learned in such matters.