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41. Some Songs of Chitral, 
By E. B. Howett, LC.S8. 
The tour songs which follow were recorded for me by Muns 
Kuli Khan, the “Na tive Political Assistant in Chitral, and ran 
Khowar text has been revised by Khan Sahib Abdul Hakim 
Khan, who is perhaps better acquainted with Khowar than any 
other living educated man. Without the aid of these two gentle- 
men in translation, it is “perhaps needless for me to say, this 
venture had never been m 
The following is ken, from ie. skeleton grammar of the 
og language contained in . Grierson’s Linguistic Sur- 
aa 
PRONUNCIATION. 
" (a) Vo wels, a, a, 2,2, u, u, &, at, 6, a4 asin Indian mea 
ages ; @ as in English hat ; é as in tent or met ; 6 asin English hot ; 
o like the first 0 in promote or the o in the French word votre, the 
short sound of o in the English word home. 
(b) Consonants, kh, zh, gh, q are the Persian and Arabic 
3 ¢ 5 and t respectively. ZL has a lingual sound between / and 
vy ..«.. This pronounced like the ‘th’ in thin. Ph is pronounced 
ey not j. The ie ts, dz represent the well-known sounds of 
Pashto and Kasmir 
To this I have only to add that in the refrain of the second 
song, line 2, appears the half aspirate, si tear aga by the sym- 
bol 4, The Arabic e: where found, is, as u represented by 
the sign—’. aes need not be ae fhe nately. 
of the latter language, It aes no alphabet of sie own; and for 
the re representation of its sounds the Roman character, with its 
IL—A SONG OF WAR IN PRAISE OF MUHAMMAD ‘ISA. 
In March 1895 two Companies of the XIVth Sikhs under 
the command ‘of Captain Ross were marching to the Shee of 
