THE ALPHABET.
Vowels.
0* W-a Qt &1 £u (ore»ii) £U
- అ / ఆ / ఇ / ఈ / ఉ / (ఱ ) ఊ / ఋ / ఎ / ఏ / ఐ / ఒ ఓ ఔ
SO ai 2L> o Sj 5 2» au.
Consonants; (in five classes.)
Class 1st. క ca 3) ఖ kha X గ ga గ gha ఘ. gna. 2nd. చ cha ఛ chha జ ja (Sb^jha ఝ jna. 3rd. త ta థ ద, da $ dha ca na (hard.) 4th. త ta థ tha da ధ dha న na (soft.)
5th. ప pa ఫ pha బ ba భ bha మ ma.
Miscellaneous.
య ya ర ra ల la వ va.
^ sa శ sha స sa హ ha క్ష xa.
The dots placed under the letters t \h d dh n 1 and s denote that these letters are Bounded hard. They are sometimes marked with accents, as t' t'h d' d'h n' Y and s'.
Numerals.
n -d 3 M £- 3 O", ~x or r 00, ocj-afo. 123456789 9 10 1850.
The numerals three and seven are perpetually confounded in manuscript.
The first 25 consonants are arranged in sets (called rftfs&o vargamu) having five letters in each : and on arranging these in five lines, we shall observe that the first and third letter in each line, are simple: but the second and fourth are aspirated. For the sake of distinction the consonants that stand in the first column, being g" £f &, eS, ■£, &c, are called *cosS. hard : and X, 8, &, (3, K> &c, in the third column are called $8$ soft. Thus G is the soft sound of k: and P is the hard sound of B.
