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Westergaard divides the four characters after the fourth word into zw vii ; 
I divide them into sha wwin, or read them in one word, shéwin. He takes the 
character 42 after the vocative, as an interjection; I have found it to be an 7, 
and join it to the following word. The enclitic pronoun, after the word signi- 
fying kingdom, is injured; Westergaard reads 57, but I think the other mode 
of completing it more probable. In a parallel passage (D. 18), 79 is used, 
which seems interchangeable with 26. 
When the great inscription from Bisitun, which it is understood that Colonel 
Rawlinson has copied, shall be published, our knowledge of this language will be 
considerably increased. Characters will, no doubt, be found there which do not 
appear in any of the inscriptions yet known, and data will probably be obtained 
for valuing the greater part of the characters which are now without values, as 
well as the new ones. Meanwhile, I hope that what has been said will prove 
interesting, as relating to an ancient language, which, as far as I am aware, has 
no resemblance in its inflexions to any language of the Indo-Germanic family ; 
though in the fact of its having inflexions it agrees with the languages of that 
family, in what has been often stated to be their distinguishing characteristic. 
NINE SIMPLE SOUNDS. 
A. I. U. ER. P. Te K. | s. N 
75:\| 46; 7204) 76: 23; 782 40. 30; 32. |11; 19; 28.| 
COMBINATIONS OF THE ABOVE SIMPLE SOUNDS. 
; ya, 47 wa, 67; 75 \ra, 13 pa, 49 ta, 51; 502% ka, 31; 66?sa, 73 na, 4 
é, 2| . . « |roi, 26; 79 |ri, 24 pi, 33 ti, 15 ki, 2 si, 5; 80 |ni, 77 
6, 2\yu, 223 3 Be ome ei) pu, 60; 342 tw, 12; 25 |ku,69;71;81 su, 52; 172 ? 
ar,10 yer, 2 mer, 2 eit | cases ter, 53 ker, 43 ser, 16 ner, 36 
| ap, 27 lat, 2 lak, 2 as, 64 an, 3 
—_ —— a ee eh 
*m, 37 ersa, 8; 82 ut, 63 *sh, 57 
*va, 29 rus, 68 tas, 70 *sha, 74 
* Characters marked with a star were probably confined to foreign words. 
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