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OF THE LETTERS.
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SIGNS.

(Symbol missingTelugu characters) r
(Symbol missingTelugu characters) n

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15 Initial unconnected vowels.
15 Connected vowels.
41 Consonants.
8 Double forms of some consonants.
2 Signs.

81 Letters.

4. Of these eighty-one letters, the initial vowesl (Symbol missingTelugu characters) roo, (Symbol missingTelugu characters) roo, and (Symbol missingTelugu characters) loo, the ten aspirates (Symbol missingTelugu characters) kꞕu, (Symbol missingTelugu characters) gꞕ, (Symbol missingTelugu characters) chꞕ, (Symbol missingTelugu characters) jꞕ, (Symbol missingTelugu characters) tꞕ, (Symbol missingTelugu characters) dꞕ, (Symbol missingTelugu characters) tꞕ, (Symbol missingTelugu characters) dꞕ, (Symbol missingTelugu characters) pꞕ, and (Symbol missingTelugu characters) bꞕ, the nasals (Symbol missingTelugu characters) gnu and (Symbol missingTelugu characters) nyu, and the consonants (Symbol missingTelugu characters) sh, (Symbol missingTelugu characters) sꞕ, (Symbol missingTelugu characters) ksꞕ, and (Symbol missingTelugu characters) , are the nineteen characters stated by Teloogoo Grammarians to be peculiar to words of Sanscrit origin. To these, the connected vowels (Symbol missingTelugu characters) roo and (Symbol missingTelugu characters) roo, should also be added. For, had not all the connected vowels been rejected from the alphabet, as marks instead of letters, a place would have been originally assigned to these two characters, in the list of symbols peculiar to Sanscrit derivatives.

5. Although the letter (Symbol missingTelugu characters) sh, is, as above stated, peculiar to Sanscrit, modern authors admit, that, Sanscrit derivatives excepted, all Teloogoo words which have the letter (Symbol missingTelugu characters) s, followed by the connected vowels (Symbol missingTelugu characters) i, (Symbol missingTelugu characters) ee, (Symbol missingTelugu characters) ĕ, or (Symbol missingTelugu characters) ē, may change the (Symbol missingTelugu characters) s, into (Symbol missingTelugu characters) sh; hence, (Symbol missingTelugu characters) chēsi, or (Symbol missingTelugu characters) chēshi, having done; (Symbol missingTelugu characters) chēsĕnoo, or (Symbol missingTelugu characters) chēshĕnoo, he, she, or it, did; (Symbol missingTelugu characters) siggoo, or (Symbol missingTelugu characters) shiggoo, shame.

6. The short initial vowels (Symbol missingTelugu characters) ĕ and (Symbol missingTelugu characters) ŏ, and their corresponding connected vowels (Symbol missingTelugu characters) ĕ and (Symbol missingTelugu characters) ŏ, (excluded by Grammarians as being merely marks) together with the consonants (Symbol missingTelugu characters) ts, (Symbol missingTelugu characters) dzu, (Symbol missingTelugu characters) lu, (Symbol missingTelugu characters) rru, and (Symbol missingTelugu characters) n, are to be found in words of the pure Teloogoo only.

7. The other letters of the alphabet are common to all Teloogoo words, whether derived from the Sanscrit, or otherwise.