1839.] Grammar of the Pashtoo or Afghdnee Language. 

 The Alphabet {Continued.) 



Afghdnee. Devna 



- English. 



Pronunciation. 





gary. 









IS 



... 



... 



z 



... the Arabic z, 



£ 

 o 



... 



... 



?7* . 



.. the Arabic mark for guttural vowels 



i 







#* 



... the Persian guttural, 



uJ 



... ^ 



... 



f . 



. . the English f, 



J 







k . 



. . the harsh English k, 



*J 



... ^ 



* . . 



k . 



. . the English k, 



*3 



... *T 



... 



g 



. . . the English g, 



J 



... *r 



... 



1 



.. the English I, 



r 



... iT 



... 



m 



.. the English m, 



^ 



... 3T 



... 



n 



.. the English n, 



-> 



... W 





w . 



. . the English w, or v, 



s 



... ^ 



... 



h . 



.. the English h, 



ui 



... V 



... 



y • 



. . the English y 9 



u* 



... w 



... 



kgh .. 



:. the Sanscrit. 



The same story is told of the Afghau language, that the Mah- 

 rattas tell of the Canarese, viz., That a certain king sent his vizier 

 to collect all the vocabularies and dialects of the earth; on the 

 vizier's return he proceeded to quote specimens before his royal 

 Master : when he came to speak of the AfgMnee dialect, he stopped, 

 and producing a tin pot containing a stone, began to -rattle it. 

 The king in surprise asked the meaning of this proceeding. The 

 vizier said that he had failed to get a knowledge of the Afgh&nee 

 language, and could only describe it by rattling a stone in a tin pot. 



It is also said, that Mahammad, the Arabian prophet, gave it as his 

 opinion that the AfyMnee was to be the language of the infernal 

 regions, as Arabic was to be that of heaven. 



In the comparison of languages, in which Arabic is called science, 

 (Urn) ; Turkish accomplishment, (hunar); Persian sugar; Hindus- 

 tanee salt ; the Afghan is complimented with the appellation of the 

 ''braying of an ass." 



