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PRONUNCIATION.
For the use of readers who are conversant with the Indian alphabets, and the system popularly known in India as “the Hunterian,” the following table, in the order in which the sounds are physiologically produced—an order also followed by the Tibetans—will show the system of spelling Sanskritic words, which is here adopted, and which it will be observed, is almost identical with that of the widely used dictionaries of Monier-Williams and Childers. The different forms used in the Tibetan for aspirates and palato-sibilants are placed within brackets:—
| (gutturals) | k | kh(k’) | g | gh | ṅ |
| (palatals) | c(c’) | ch(ch’) | j | jh | ñ |
| (cerebrals) | ṭ | ṭh | ḍ | ḍh | ṇ |
| (dentals) | t | th(t’) | d | dh | n |
| (labials) | p | ph(p’) | b | bh | m |
| (palato-sibil.) | (ts) | (ts’) | (z & ds) | (z’) | |
| y | v | r | l | ||
| (sibilants) | ṣ | sh(s’) | s | ||
| h | aṃ |
