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