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4. Of these eighty-one letters, the initial vowesl roo,  roo, and  loo, the ten aspirates  kꞕu,  gꞕ,  chꞕ,  jꞕ,  tꞕ,  dꞕ,  tꞕ,  dꞕ,  pꞕ, and  bꞕ, the nasals  gnu and  nyu, and the consonants  sh,  sꞕ,  ksꞕ, and  ꞕ, are the nineteen characters stated by Teloogoo Grammarians to be peculiar to words of Sanscrit origin. To these, the connected vowels roo and  roo, should also be added. For, had not all the connected vowels been rejected from the alphabet, as marks instead of letters, a place would have been originally assigned to these two characters, in the list of symbols peculiar to Sanscrit derivatives.

5. Although the letter sh, is, as above stated, peculiar to Sanscrit, modern authors admit, that, Sanscrit derivatives excepted, all Teloogoo words which have the letter  s, followed by the connected vowels  i,  ee,  ĕ, or  ē, may change the  s, into  sh; hence,  chēsi, or  chēshi, having done;  chēsĕnoo, or  chēshĕnoo, he, she, or it, did;  siggoo, or  shiggoo, shame.

6. The short initial vowels ĕ and  ŏ, and their corresponding connected vowels  ĕ and  ŏ, (excluded by Grammarians as being merely marks) together with the consonants  ts,  dzu,  lu,  rru, and  n, are to be found in words of the pure Teloogoo only.

7. The other letters of the alphabet are common to all Teloogoo words, whether derived from the Sanscrit, or otherwise.