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APPENDIX A. 



As a foundation for the report which the Sub- Commit- 

 tee was appointed to prepare, I would propose the six fol- 

 lowing axioms : — 



1. That the scheme be founded on the system of Sir 

 W. Jones. 



2. That a distinct Roman character should be used for 

 each oriental letter. 



3. That the same Roman letter shall always represent 

 the same vernacular letter and shall never be employed to 

 designate any other. 



4. That two or more letters shall never be taken to re- 

 present an oriental character or sound where a single letter 

 will suffice. 



5. That diacritical marks should only be employed in 

 the last necessity. 



6. Varieties of type as capital, italics, &c, to be declared 

 inadmissible. 



Professor Wilson has already drawn up a scheme em- 

 bracing most of these requisites which is printed in the in- 

 troduction to his Glossary. 



I am not disposed to depart from this, except in a few 

 particulars, where it appears to me to be susceptible of improve- 

 ment. 



I will notice shortly the points in which I differ from that 

 scheme beginning with the Deva Nagari Alphabet. 



Deva Nagari. 

 In adopting this Alphabet as a basis, we shall have the 

 most perfect phonetic system of classified sounds which, accord- 

 ing to Prof. Max Muller, has ever been invented. And this be- 

 cause it was taught by the voice alone, for ages after the Sans- 

 crit Language had been brought to a high degree of cultiva- 



