TRANSACTIONS 



ASIATICK SOCIETY, 



i. 



A DISSERTATION 



ON THE 



Orthography of Asiatick Words in 

 Roman Letters. 



PRESIDENT. 



EVERY man, who has occafion to compofe tracts 

 on Afiatick literature, or to tranflate from the 

 Afiatick languages, muft always find it convenient, 

 and fometimes necefiary, to exprefs Arabian , Indian 

 and Perfian words, or fentences, in the characters 

 generally ufed among Europeans; and almoft every 

 writer in thofe circumiiances, has a method of nota- 

 tion peculiar to himfelf : but none has yet appeared in 

 the form of a complete fyftem, fo that each original 

 found may be rendered invariably by one appropriated 

 fymbol, conformably to the natural order of articu- 

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