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tongue, round one side of the mouth from the hindermost 

 molar towards the front teeth. 



To ,ja has already been assigned the mark of the palatal 

 Is and on the score of analogy the ^ should be distinguished 

 in like manner by 0. 



The next letters and j present no difficulties. The 

 first is precisely the English /; to the latter has been assign- 

 ed the letter q, an arbitrary arrangement, but one which has 

 been very generally adopted and which effectually guards 

 against confounding it with k, 



With regard to ^ which has been the subject of so much 

 controversy, we desire to recommend the expedient proposed 

 by Mr. Bayley of substituting a reversed comma above the 

 line, for the reasons so fully stated at page 35 of Appendix B. 

 It is supported by simplicity of application whether in writ- 

 ing or print, being nothing more than the single inverted com- 

 ma, used to mark a quotation within a quotation, in ordinary 

 printing. By the latest modification of the Indian Missionary 

 alphabet, it has been resolved to write the vowels represented 

 by ^with a comma before or after the letter — but on the top 



of the line, as 'a'amdl for JUxl This plan is also deserving 

 of commendation. 



For A, a double character gh has long been in use with 

 very general approval. More recently the Missionaries have 

 proposed to drop the h and have added a point in the lower 

 loop of the g— a gain on the side of simplicity in typography 

 when special provision has been made for the purpose, but im- 

 possible of execution in ordinary type and difficult of notation 

 in cursive manuscript. 



The Persian j has been rendered in all systems by zlu 

 It is of extremely rare occurrence and the double sign may 

 be retained. If the same double character be assigned to the 



