§17. The letter ဟ, in the capacity of an aspirate, may be combined with the nasals, as ငှ, ညှ, ဏှ, နှ, မှ, and with the liquids လ and ဝ, as လှ, ဝှ. But when combined with ယ or ရ, the compound has the power of sh, as ရှန်, shan. လျှ, ʻlya also is frequently pronounced sha, and သျှ has the same power. ငြ is equivalent to ည, nya, and ယျ to ယ, ya.
combinations of vowels with consonants.
§18. The vowel အ is supposed to be inherent in every consonant that is not furnished with the symbol of another vowel, or marked as final.
§19. The other vowels are combined with consonants, simple or compound, under symbolic forms, according to the following table:—
§20.
| Letter. | Symbol. | Name of Symbol. | Junction with က. | Power. |
| အာ | ာ or ါ | ချ, placed down, | ကာ | ka. |
| ဣ | ိ | လုံးကြီးတင်, large round placed on, | ကိ | kee. |
| ဤ | ီ | လုံးကြီးတင်ဆန်ခတ်, large round placed on and kernel inserted,
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ကီ | kee. |
| ဥ | ု | တချောင်းငင်, one line drawn, | ကု | koo. |
| ဦ | ူ | နှစ်ချောင်းငင်, two lines drawn, | ကူ | koo. |
| ဧ | ေ | သဝေထိုး, tha-waa thrust out, | ကေ | kaa. |
| အဲ | ဲ | နောက်သို့ပြစ်, thrown back, | ကဲ | kai. |
| ဩော | ော | သဝေထိုးချ, as above, | ကော | kau. |
| ဪ | ော် | သဝေထိုးချရှေ့ထိုး, as above and thrust forward, | ကော် | kau. |
| အို | ို | လုံးကြီးတင်တချောင်းငင်, as above, | ကို | ko. |
§21. The second symbol of the vowel အာ (ါ) is used whenever the use of the first would convert the consonant into another letter,—also with ခ and င, as ခါ, not ခာ. The latter part of the symbols of ဩော and ဪ, is similarly modified in the same circumstances, as ခေါ်, not ခော်.
§22. The symbol of any vowel may be combined with the vowel အ, in which case the compound has the power of the vowel which the symbol represents; thus အိ is equivalent to ဣ, အု to ဥ, &c.
