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Rh {| 48. k, and its double form, have the sound of the English k, as in king.
 * the sound of||||kꞕu||may be exemplified by that of the kꞕ in ink and horn.
 * gꞕ|| gꞕ in dog herd.
 * chꞕ|| chꞕ in church hill.
 * tꞕ|| tꞕ in that house.
 * dꞕ|| dꞕ in adhere.
 * bꞕ|| bꞕ in abhor.
 * pꞕ|| pꞕ in up hill, and so on.
 * }
 * dꞕ|| dꞕ in adhere.
 * bꞕ|| bꞕ in abhor.
 * pꞕ|| pꞕ in up hill, and so on.
 * }
 * pꞕ|| pꞕ in up hill, and so on.
 * }

49. g, has the hard sound of g as in go, gun, &c.; never its soft sound, as in ginger, &c.

50. gnu has the peculiar nasal sound of gn, as in the French words ignorance, digne, &c.

51. and  have each two sounds. is pronounced either hard, as ch in beach; or soft, as ts in beats: and is sounded either hard, as j in jar; or soft, as dz in torridzone. The soft sounds ts and dz are peculiar to the Teloogoo: and therefore, when or  occur in words of Sanscrit origin, they are invariably to be pronounced hard; thus,  chundroondoo, the moon, and  judoondoo, a fool, never can be pronounced as tsundroondoo and dzudoondoo. In Teloogoo, both the hard and soft sounds are to be found; but the rule is simple for ascertaining which of the two is to be given to these letters; for if or  be followed by the connected vowels  i,  ee,  ĕ,  ē, or  ue they are respectively pronounced hard, as ch and j; thus,  chētu, by,  jĕtti, a wrestler; but if followed by any other vowel, they always take the soft sounds ts and dz, as in  tsukkĕru, sugar,  tsōtoo, a place, and  dzōdoo, a pair.

52. nya, sounds like n before y, or as ni in the word onion.

53. t,  d, and  n are the harshest possible sounds of t, d, and n, formed by curving back the tongue, and forcibly striking the under part of it, against the roof of the mouth.