PRINTED FOR BLACK, KINGSBURY, PARBURY, AND ALLEN, LEADENHALL-STREET. PRONUNCIATION OF HINDOO NAMES. IN endeavouring to give the sounds of Sungskritŭ words, the author has adopted a method, which he hopes unites correctness with simplicity, and avoids much of that confusion which has been so much complained of on this subject. If the reader will only retain in his memory, that the short ŭ is to be sounded as the short o in son, or the u in Burton; the French é, as a in plate, and the ee as in sweet, he may go through the work with a pronunciation so correct, that a Hindoo would understand him. At the beginning and end of a word, the inherent (ŭ) has the soft sound of au. The greatest difficulty arises in giving the sound of 3, the kŭyŭ-phŭla; and although the English y has been used for this symbol, in the middle of a word the sound is most like that of the soft e. |