Shakespear, John: A grammar of the Hindustani language (London, 1826)

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A GRAMMAR OF THE

exact correspondents in the Nagari alphabet, the follow-
ing characters, being the letters which approach nearest
in pronunciation, are commonly used in writing tliis lan-
guage ; and, though not the practice of the people of
India, points may be adopted beneath the letters in such
cases to shew the extraordinary use made of them : thus.


for

rT

for L


— Z

3T
• ♦

— h

<cr

♦

— ^

3T

~ t

3T

— j

JT

♦



' J

CR

— t <

3T

♦

' J

efi

J


— J*

] (final) (alif-i-maksura)

3T

—

5

for * (tanwin)

In certain European works, however, the following
characters have been preferred to some of those before
given,

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tor ^ O j J Sj ^ tA ^

but such distinctions are not usual in the manuscripts ot
the natives.

A single stroke thus \ is used at the end of a hemisticLy
and a double one thus Tt at the end of a distich, as wel!
as on other occasions, to mark the divisions in composition.