Out. 1858.— Mar. 1859.] In Roman Characters. 189 



Mr. C. P. Brown has represented the Telugu -a* by p 

 and the by 0, restricting the true sound of the Nagari or 

 eh to words of Sanscrit origin. 



It appears, however, to be unnecessary in a system of 

 strict transliteration to provide more symbols for a letter, 

 however variable in sound, than the people possess themselves. 

 In using a romanized character, such anomalies must there- 

 fore be learnt by practice, as they are at present mastered by 

 the natives themselves, who employ the vernacular characters 

 under precisely similar circumstances. 



The only exception which appears necessary is in the re- 

 duplicated Tamil sounds of & y t- and p or d, d and f which 

 become tt tt and tt and this has long received the sanction 

 of general usage. These have therefore been admitted. 

 The changes occurring in other letters will be found enume- 

 rated in Appendix B. p. 32. 



We have also adopted the rule which gives the normal 

 sound of the Devanagari characters to words adopted into 

 Tamil and have represented them by their corresponding . 

 Roman letters. 



Mr. Brown's expedient however suggests another use 

 for the letter g and that is, it's substitution for the ch of ^f, 

 which, cumbrous in its simple romanized form, becomes still 



more awkward and unsightly in its re-duplicated and as- 

 pirated shapes * The letter c, the only character remaining 

 unappropriated, is also available for the same purpose. This 

 however is simply thrown out as a suggestion, which we have 



* e. g. In the words jJOj^s^>- and 



'<V , 0 chliuchliundar 

 and cKhuch'hundari "a musk rat" ;J jiSj^s^>- ch'huchlwndar ck'hor, 

 "a back-biter "^"i^^F^. chochchuchunna " to rush in." 



Prof. Bopp, appears to havo adopted the expedient here recommended ; 

 thus he writes the title of the celebrated drama called tho Toy cart, Mric'c'akati, 



