OF ASIATICK WORDS. &g 



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The Indian afpirate of the preceding letter, as in the 

 word bhd//id, or a fpoken dialeft. No comma is necef- 

 fary in this notation, fince the found of bha cannot be 

 confounded with any in our own language. 



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This is the laft nafal, as in Menu, one of the firft 

 created beings according to the Indians : it is formed by 

 clofing the lips entirely, whilft the breath pafl'es gently 

 through the nofe. And here ends the regular arrange- 

 ment of the Ndgari letters. Another feries might have 

 been added, namely, fa,JIia, za, zha, which are in the 

 fame proportion as la, tha, da, dha, and the reft; but 

 the two laft founds are not ufed in Sanfcrit. 



Then follows a fet of letters approaching to the na- 

 ture of vowels. The firft of them feems, in truth, to 

 be no more than our third fhort vowel beginning a 

 diphthong, and may, therefore, be thought a funer- 

 fluous chara&er. Since this union, however, produces 

 a kind of confonant articulated near the palate, it is 

 ranked by many among the confonants, and often con- 

 founded with/'tf : hence Yamuna, afacredriver in India, 

 called alfo the Daughter of the Sun, is written Jomanes 

 by the Greeks, and Jumna, lefs properly, by the Eng- 

 UJh. 



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