Index talk:A Grammar of the Persian Language.djvu

Special characters

As noted in A Grammar of the Persian Language/Of the Letters, this work uses some special characters to represent Persian letters, as follows:

Persian	Latin	Encoding	Explanation
ت	ṭ	ṭ or ṭ	(p.4)
ث	ṣ	ṣ or ṣ
ح	ḥ	ḥ or ḥ	"with a dot under it, to distinguish it from ه‎" (p.5)
ژ	j͏̇͏̇	{{cdm|{{cdm|j|307}}|307}} or j̇̇	"It may be expressed in our characters by j͏̇͏̇ with two dots" (p.6-7). NOTE: it is necessary to add the "combining dot above" character twice, because the usual dot above the j is omitted in most fonts when combined with a diacritic. Some fonts may incorrectly display the j's original dot, resulting in three dots over the j.
ص	s͏̤͏̣	{{cdm|{{cdm|s|324}}|323}} or s̤̣	(p.7)
ض	z͏̈͏̇	{{cdm|{{cdm|z|308}}|307}} or z̈̇
ط	t͏̤	{{cdm|t|324}} or t̤
ظ	z͏̈͏̈	{{cdm|{{cdm|z|308}}|308}} or z̈̈
ع	ع	ع or ع	"as no letters can convey an idea of its force, we have, in imitation of Meninski, used the Arabick form in combination with the Roman and Italick characters" (p.7-8)
ق	ḳ	ḳ or ḳ	(p.8)
ك (ک)	k͏̤	{{cdm|k|324}} or k̤
ه	h͏̤	{{cdm|h|324}} or h̤	"ه h͏̤e, is a slight aspiration. [...] At the end of a Persian word it is often unaspirated. [...] In the first case it may be represented by h͏̤, in the second by h." (p.8)

Vowels have diacritics depending on pronunciation, as follows: a e i o u; ă ĕ ĭ ŏ ŭ; ā ē ī ō ū. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 15:37, 28 September 2021 (UTC)