43. Each of the long vowels should be pronounced full and broad, and the voice should dwell upon them twice as long as upon the short vowels, which should be sounded as short as possible.
44. When the sound of the vowel (
Telugu characters) i comes after another vowel, it is expressed by the consonant (Telugu characters) y, (written without the (Telugu characters) u,) and that of (Telugu characters) by the character (Telugu characters); thus, (Telugu characters) rai, a stone; (Telugu characters) bōee, a palanqueen-bearer.
45. The long vowel (Telugu characters) and its connected form (Telugu characters) ē in some cases, which must be learned by practice, as they can scarcely be embraced by any rule, instead of the pronunciation before mentioned as that generally attached to them, take a sound nearly approaching to (Telugu characters) ya, and some what resembling the final sound produced by the bleating of sheep; hence, perhaps (Telugu characters) mēku, a sheep; thus also, (Telugu characters) nēlu, the ground, and (Telugu characters) nērumoo, a crime, are pronounced nearly as if written as (Telugu characters) nyalu, and (Telugu characters) nyarumoo; and, in the common dialect, they are often so erroneously written.
46. The sound above assigned to the vowels (Telugu characters) roo, (Telugu characters) roo, and (Telugu characters) loo, as well as to their connected forms, (Telugu characters) roo, (Telugu characters) roo, and (Telugu characters) loo, is that which properly belongs to these characters in the Teloogoo language; and which is invariably given to them by all the natives in the northern provinces of the Peninsula. In the middle provinces, the r and l are pronounced with the tongue mor curved towards the roof of the mouth, and the oo less distincly, with an inclination to the sound of the French u, and to the southward, these letters assume the sounds of ri-ree- and lee- given to them by Sanscrit Grammarians.
CONSONANTS.
47. It is chiefly in the pronunciation of the consonants that difficulty is experienced. (Telugu characters) kꞕu, (Telugu characters) gꞕ, (Telugu characters) chꞕ, (Telugu characters) jꞕ, (Telugu characters) tꞕ, (Telugu characters) dꞕ, (Telugu characters) dꞕ, (Telugu characters) pꞕ, and (Telugu characters) bꞕ, the ten aspirated consonants, peculiar to Sanscrit derivatives; are not, at the commencement of a word, familiar to an English ear; but they occur frequently in our language in the middle of compound terms; the sound of the h flowing, in an easy gentle manner, immediately after that of the k, g, d, &c., which precedes it, without the least articulation intervening; thus,
