Schlagintweit, Hermann von; Schlagintweit, Adolf; Schlagintweit, Robert von: Results of a scientific mission to India and High Asia: undertaken between the years MDCCCLIV and MDCCCLVIII, by order of the court of directors of the hon. East India Company (Band 3): Route-book of the western parts of the Himálaya, Tibet, and Central Asia: and geographical glossary from the languages of India and Tibet, including the phonetic transcription and interpretation (Leipzig, 1863)

IL DETAIL OF THE ALPHABET USED.

1. Letters and Signs used for the Phonetic Transcription.—Alphabetical registers. — Modification of the letters

and signs: Vowels — Consonants — Syllables in general.

2. Detail op the Vowels. — Pronunciation of the vowels. — The vowel-system of Sanskrit. — Vowels of imperfect

formation.— Diphthongs. — Nasal vowels.

3. Detail op the Consonants. — Pronunciation of the consonants. — Tibetan consonants not pronounced. — Dupli-

cation.— Compound consonants. — Substitution of consonants.

4. The Accent. — Nature and general occurrence. — Principal accent. — Secondary accents. — Limits to the receding

of the accent.

1. LBTTEES AND SIGNS USED FOR THE PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION.

a (a, a, a, a), a (a); b (bli); ch (chh); d (dh); e (e, e, e); f; g (gh); h (','); i (I, I);
j (jh); k (kh), kh; 1 (lh); m; n; o (6, 6), 6 (6); p (ph); r (rh); s; sh; t (th); u (u, u), ii;
v; y; z; zh.

Alphabetical Registers.
In our alphabetical register the letters follow in the order of the alphabet,
irrespective of the signs attached to them. This arrangement has the advantage of
coinciding as nearly as possible with the system adopted in the dictionaries of the
European languages.

Modifications of the Letters and Signs.
Vowels. ~ above the vowel, makes the vowel long; v indicates its imperfect for-
mation; ~ designates its nasal modification.