152 TRANSLITERATION OF MALAY. 
The other letters are called the lunar letters and do not assimi- 
late the J, namely :— | 
Is er ee er Br Bs Si G sy 6, and |. 
Examples: -r-rah-mani-r-rahim, the merciful, the compassionate ; 
méliki yaumi-d-din, the Lord of the Day of Judgment; aleyhi-s-sa- 
lam, on him be peace. Proper names: Abdurrahman Dia-uddin. 
The force of the orthographical sign called teshdid may be 
rendered by doubling the consonants over which it is placed as tam- 
mat, finished; jannat, Paradise (lit. “the garden”), Muhammad, 
Mohamed ; Sayyid, a descendant of the Prophet. 
