rudimentai principles of persian grammar,

for those students only, who have already made

considerable progress in the grand

popular speech of all india.
 

1.  hindoostanee and persian pronunciation
assimilates so completely in british india witli
my hindee-roman orthoepigraphy, that, after
what has appeared on this subject in the story-
teller and guide, further remarks would prove
mere repetition, those only shall therefore ap¬
pear in these pages, which have been omitted
in the former works.

2.  although the ancient sound of u in bud bad,
was probably as in our rose-hud, we must con¬
cede, that the modern persians give this short
vowel the equivocal power displayed in rose bed,
but no such vowel as this e existing among the
hindoostanees, they invariably retain the zubur
u with its pristine accent only, bud, therefore,
cannot be either bed, or pronounced as, though it
means, bad, nor can but become bet, hat; and it
is curious enough, that the old verb bud-na
or but-na means to bet, among the hindoos.

3.  our e in there seems once to have been so
prolated in persian, as their letter be (haiJ still

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