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Report on Transliteration. 
which the letters of the Arabic Alphabet have received in the various 
Musulman countries. 
This is one of the reasons for the two methods of transcription 
which the Commission has proposed as alternatives for certain letters. 
The number of letters whose transcription is a matter of option 
has been brought to the very lowest possible number consistent with 
necessity, and we may fairly hope that Orientalists of all countries will 
take pains to render this number still smaller, by keeping as closely 
as possible to the method of transcription to which the Commission 
has deemed it a duty to give the preference. 
With regard to the transcription of Sanskrit there has been far 
less diversity of opinion, and difficulty has only been experienced in the 
transcription of a very small number of letters. 
In such cases, the Commission, in weighing the various equivalents 
proposed, has chosen those which on the whole appear to be the most 
practical. To arrive at uniformity, each country and each Society 
ought to make certain concessions, and the Commission hopes that the 
systems now put forward by it will be unanimously accepted and put 
in practice forthwith. 
Barbie r de Meynard. 
G. Buhler. 
J. Burgess. 
M. J. de Goeje. 
H. Thomson Lyon. 
Geneva , the 10th September , 1894, 
G. T. Plunkett, 
Emile Senary. 
Socin. 
Windisch. 
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