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Rh only is added; thus,  mō,  yō, &c. This latter rule is occasionally applicable to the consonants s and  h, which, joined with long  ō, are frequently written thus,  sō,  hō.

26. The letters n and  s and  v and  p, when separated from the connected vowels, are respectively represented by the same characters; but, like the other consonants before mentioned, they are invariably accompanied by some connected vowel, and they are distinguished from each other, by the different modes in which the connected vowels are added to them;  n and  v are always united with the vowels; thus  nu,  vu, and  vuo, but  s and  p have the connected vowels written separately from them; as in the syllables  su,  pu, and  puo.

27. Thus also the shape of the letter r, as given in the foregoing list of the consonants, is the same as that of  n or m, hereafter noticed; the latter, however, is never joined with any of the connected vowels; as  untĕ, a part of the verb  unco, to say,  papum, sin, &c., while the former is always found with some of them united to it, in the following manner;  ru,  ra,  rŏ, &c. The student, therefore, can have little difficulty in distinguishing the one from the other.

28. Though native Grammarians, in enumerating the letters of the alphabet, consider ts to be different from  ch, and  dzu to be distinct from  ju, they are respectively represented by the same characters; and, in fact, they are only two letters, each possessing two distinct sounds, which has induced Grammarians to consider them as four separate characters.

29. Following the arrangement of the Sanscrit, the twenty-five first Teloogoo consonants have been classed by native writers in five Vurgus or classes, each containing five letters, as arranged above in horizontal lines, (see No. 16.)

30. The fifth consonant of each Vurgu or Class is a nasal; and, in Sanscrit derivatives, if a nasal immediately precede another consonant, without the intervention of a vowel, it must be that particular nasal only which belongs to the same Vurgu as the consonant itself; for instance, in such words, if a nasal