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MAHRATTA GRAMMAR.
VOWELS.
| अ u[1] | आ a | इ i | ई ee |
| उ oo | ऊ oo | ( Marathi characters) roo
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(Marathi characters) roo
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| ऌ lroo | ॡ lroo | ए e | ऐ i |
| ओ o | औ ou | (Marathi characters) ung
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(Marathi characters) uh
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In the Moorh alphabet the long vowels, and the two first nasals of the Devunaguri system are wanting.
The pronunciation of nearly all the characters will be evident on comparing them with the Roman letters placed by them, to represent their sounds, but some of the sounds, particularly those of the एा, ळ and ऌ, cannot be acquired without a teacher.
1. The letters are fifty in number, of which thirty-four are consonants (व्यञ्जन), and sixteen vowels स्वर.
2. The first twenty-five consonants are called वर्ग(Marathi characters), classed, being formed into five regular classes (वर्ग); and the last nine are called (Marathi characters), miscellaneous.
- ↑ In expressing Indian sounds by English letters, a must be invariably sounded as in father, e as a in name, i as in his, i as in time, o as in robe, u as in but, ee as in reed, oo as in good, oo as in food and ou as in foul.
