MADRAS JOURNAL 



OF 



LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. 



NO. 10 -NEW SEEIES. 



October—March, 1859-60. 



X. On the Report of the Sub- Committee appointed to" consider 

 the question of writing Oriental words in Roman Characters. 

 By W. H. Bayley, Esq., M. C. S. 



I have lately received a printed copy of the Report of the Sub- 

 Committee appointed to consider the question of writing Oriental 

 words in Roman characters, and as a Member of that Sub-Com- 

 mittee I request the consideration of the Society to a few obser- 

 vations which I have to make on that Report. It was prepared 

 by Mr. W. Elliot after Mr. Norman and myself left^ India, but as 

 we had previously consulted together (not as fully as we would 

 have done had health permitted) and had each written a " memo." 

 (mine is in pages 29 — 50 of the printed Pamphlet) we authorised 

 Mr. Elliot to append our names as soon as he could complete the 

 Report, which he has most ably accomplished, still there are some 

 points, which either Mr. Elliot did not recollect, or which did not 

 occur for discussion, on which I cannot quite coincide with the 

 Report as it stands, and as it appears that Government have 

 adopted the scheme set forth in that Report, I beg my remarks 

 may be laid before them. 



Firstly. I observe that the long accent rn^rks to the Sanskrit 

 and Hindustani vowels e and o are omitted in page 9. It is true, 

 as stated in page 12, that they are always long, and if our scheme 

 was limited to Hindustani, there would not be much (though still 

 Vol. xx. o. s. Vol. tii. n. s. 



