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§29. The final syllables, as here exhibited, are combined with any consonant simple or compound, as ကက် ket, ကျင် kyeen, &c. without any change in their pronunciation, except in two cases, viz: before တ် or ပ်, is commonly pronounce wŏt[1] not wat, and before န်, မ်, or (ံ), wŏn or woon not wan; and consonants compounded with ဝ, as ကွ, စွ, &c. before တ် or ပ်, are commonly pronounced kooat,[2] tsooat; and before န်, မ်, or (ံ), kooan,[2] tsooan[2], &c. [These final consonants are not pronounced as distinctly as in English. St.]

§30. There are also many words of Pali origin, in which consonants, final in a syllable, are subject to permutations somewhat similar to the above, and others of a peculiar character. A key to the whole is furnished in the following table:—

§31. ဩော
အက် as above. ဣက်, eik.[3] ဥက်, ōk. ဧက်, eet, [or it. St.] ဩောက်, ouk.
အင် ဣင်, eing. ဥင်, ōng. ဩောင်, oung.
အစ် ဣစ်, eik. ဥစ်, ōk. ဧစ်, eet. ဩောစ်, oot.
အည် ဣည်, eing. ဥည်, ōng. ဧည်, een, ee. ဩောည် oon.
အတ် ဣတ်, eik. ဥတ်, ōk. ဧတ်, eet. ဩောတ်, oot.
အန် ဣန်, eing. ဥန်, ōng. ဧန်, een. ဩောန်, oon.
အပ် ဣပ်, eik. ဥပ်, ōk. ဧပ်, eet. ဩောပ်, oot.
အမ် ဣမ်, eing. ဥမ်, ōng. ဧမ်, een. ee as in been. St. ဩောမ်, oon.
အယ်
အရ်, an. ဧရ်, ee.
အလ်, an. ဣလ်, eing. ဥလ်, ōng. ဧလ်, een. ဩောလ်, oon.
အသ်, at. ဣသ်, eik. ဥသ်, ōk. ဧသ်, eet. ဩောသ်, oot.
အံ, an. အိံ, eing. အုံ, ōng.

§32. In the preceding table, final consonants are marked (်), for the sake of simplifying the tabular view; but though there are some instances of that kind, as ဥပုသ်, oo-pōk, မထေရ်, ma-ʻtee, in almost all cases derived from the Pali, final consonants are made so by having other consonants subjoined, as ဣန္ဒြေ eing-dray, or by modification (see §23), ein-dray, ဥစ္စာ, ōk-tsa, or by modification ōt-tsa, မေတ္တာ, meet-ta,[4] ဩောတ္တပ္ပ, oot-tap-pa.

  1. Ŏ, as oo in foot. St.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ooa, as oo in foot, or soon. St.
  3. Ei as in vein, skein, St.
  4. Pron. myit-ta. St.