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that which the letter a expresses, while that proper to the 

 letter u is too close. The attached vowel is also still an 

 aspirate, though a soft one, and an audible breathing is 

 heard to survive the voice, just as in the French article le. 

 I should therefore like to see it represented by an a, with a 

 little bit cut out, which in italics, and writing, would at once 

 be an approach to u, and serve to express the short, broken, 

 or escaping character of the sound. 



The Lord's Prayer in Singhalese, Matthew vi. 9. 

 (THE BIBLE SOCIETY'S TRANSLATION, 1840.) 



Swargayehi w T adasitina apage piyananwahanse : obawa- 

 hansege namaya sudhawewa ; obawahansege raj y ay a ewa ; 

 obawahansege kamatta swargayehimen bhumiyehida karanu- 

 labewa ; ape dawas])ata bhojanaya apata ada di wadalama- 

 nawa ; ape nayakarayanta api kshamawennakmen ape nayat 

 apata kshamawi wadalamanawa ; apa parikshawimata nopa- 

 munuwa ; napuren apagalawa wadalamanawa ; maknisada 

 rajyayat parakramayat mahimatawayat sadakalhima obawa- 

 hansegemaya. — Amen. 



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