M 



V 



S32 



Pickering on the Orthography of th 



sldll 



d discrimination 



tcsque characters, than to apply with 



those letters wliich are already in use either in our own or the 

 kindred alphahets. 



I once thought of adding to the proposed alphabet appropriate 



as this was not strictly within my 



only he necessary in the instruction of 



The names in common use amons: the 



the 



original 

 pupils, I 



Euroiieai 



d would 



ti nations and ourselv 

 exception, perhaps, of 



will answer suflBciently well. 



as 



6?, H, W. and F 



Which might be called by names, that would more immediately 

 suggest to the learner the respective powers of tliose letters, than 

 is done by their^iresent denominations 5 thus the letter 6? instead 

 of being called >e, might have the name of shee, which Eliot used 



» 



n 



s 



take the Germ 



i 



ppellation ha or ha 



W might be called wee,\ as Eliot also named it ; and Y might be 

 called ye or ya. Perhaps, too, some suitable appellations m^ay be 

 wanted for the compound characters s^, tsh, he, to give the 



for 



learner some idea of their powers. B 



mentioned, it is not necessary here to enter upon th 

 of this subject. 



I now subjoin in one view the proposed India 



Table | in which, the first List contains the 



Alphabet 



letters of our alphabet, as far 



as 



them 



contains the 



low the dirjhth 



eems practicable to adopt 

 nasals ; after these fol- 



d lastly, a number 



of 



compound char 



dialects 



less frequent use in different 



* Indian Gram. p. 3. 



t « We call W(weeJ because our name giveth no hint of the power of its 

 sound." Indian Gram. p. 2. 



