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 THE TELUGU

PRIMER.

PART FIRST. OF THE LETTERS.

1

The letters in the Telugu language are

fifty-seven in number; viz. sixteen vowels; three letters that may be ranked either as vowel or consonants ; and thirty-eight consonants.

Vowels, powers. £9

a.

)

pronounced like (n) in uncle, sun,/un, ,

-.

or like (a) as short as possible as in at.

Cb?

a.

do

do

(a) in father, wall, calf,

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I. do

do

(i)

pin,

sin, grin.

i.* do

do

(ee) in green,

seen, peel,

in

cr like (i) in pique. &

u.* do

do

(oo) in good, stood, woolr

represented here by I- ii & fi>
 * To avoid double letters

- & and

are