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Village, is dih ; but a writing, is ndmd. Thus there 



is a distinction between ^ Vj ddna grain, and ddnd a 

 sage. 



N. B. — The Hindi aspirate or h has been adopted in the 

 Hindustani language, by adding the ordinary h to the 

 several consonants thus : 



I b'h 



t'h 

 t'h 

 P h 

 ch'h 



d'h 

 d'h 

 k'h 



g'h 



j'n 

 rh 



It is proposed to separate these letters by 

 an aspirate, to distinguish them from ch, 

 Mi and gh which are each one letter, and 

 to prevent the erroneous pronunciation 

 of the th and ph which would occur to 

 English readers. Thus khdna a 



house and \j k'hdnd food, have a very 

 different pronunciation of the first syl- 

 lable. 



The Arabic alif-i-makstira which terminates some 

 words, is generally rendered in Hindustani by \ ; thus J^Ii 



is \Aj or fatwd. 



