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వికీసోర్స్ నుండి
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over the letters i$, §, Q, ka, ta, ki, ti, we often see the vowel written without touching the consonant.

The nasals are placed at the ends of those classes in the alphabet to which they belong.

All the nasal letters may be changed into O sunna (the sign or contraction for N or M) either when they are followed by a consonant or when they are final. Thus ^o^o grandham * a book' would according to Sanscrit rule be written l*jp^ > ant* tSo?fo angam 'the body' would be written

Regarding Telugu words also, instead of S£ kinda, the spelling in use is §oe. The sound remains unaltered.

In the Devanagari alphabet, as exhibited in Wilson's Sanscrit Dictionary, the appropriate nasal is retained; but in Telugu, as in common Devanagari or Bangali writing, the dot or circlet is substituted. Thus ts^ssr'SS alancaram (ornament) is written BooT'So Jr- v' which form alone is intelligible. This occasionally alters the place of a word in the dictionary.

ON SPELLING.—THE VOWELS.

If a word borrowed from Sanscrit ends in a long vowel, this is generally shortened. cala becomes cala; and "^f> Devi becomes "sfo Dev!. Monosyllables, as sri and (J»; stri retain the long vowel.*

The long (or broad) a fcj" is sounded as in the English words half, hard, laugh. tata, 'grandfather' is sounded as the English pronounce Tartar. s£r»fc> mata 'a word' like the English 4 Martyr.' In ftS-o($o A'ndhra (the learned name for Telugu) the first vowel is long, as though written am. The second shape of a is • as in tata 'grandfather.' This —° is called &>$>£~o (long) and is, added to the letters thus.

  • The short vowel A is written in eight ways in English : with five vowels and three dipthongs: thus (A) Ashore, Amelia, Victoria, Woman, (E) writer, flower, other, (I) stir, Cheshire, (0) London, son, mother, Hertford, (U) gun, cup, until, (IE) soldier, (OU) neighbour, (10) fiction, occasion. The Sanscrit asti and santi, become in Latin est and sunt; the a changing into e, and into u. Many Sanscrit words are identical with Latin. "l6oO santi Bunt, \ Sj-»oo

pravahanti provehunt. But as these instances shew, the Sanscrit Towel A ia convertible into E, I, 0, and U.