The Works of Sir William Jones, volume 3
The Works of Sir William Jones, volume 3
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^ '■ When the firjl vowel, as the Perjians pro- nounce it in the word bakhtj is doubled or pro- longed as in bakbt, it has the found of the fecond Ndgart vowel, and of the fir ft Arabick letter, that is, of our long vowel in cajl ; but i\it Arabs deride the Perjians for their broad pronunciation of this letter, which in Iran has always the found of our vowel in caU^ and is often fo prolated, as to refepible tht fourth and even the fifth of our Digitized by Google ^^ ON THE ORTHOGRAPHY long vowels.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
6 i Tiaun b 3 y . J...
t di ty\ t)"' (i* c; d £/ y. ^ /Google Digitized by ' OF ASIATICK WORDS. 27l the Arabs, and, in fome few words, to the Zeher of the PerfianSj or an acute accent placed above the letter; but this Arabian mark, which was fupplied in the Pablavi by a diftin^ charadter, is more frequently pronounced at Isfahan eithen like our Jirft or our fecond fhort vowel, as in cbajbm znd ferzend, and the diftin£tion feems to depend, in general, on the nature of the con- fonant, which foll...ows it. Two of our letters, therefore, are rieceflary for the complete nota- tion of the acar and zeber; and thus we may Be able occafionally to avoid ridiculous or offen- five equivocations in writing Oriental words*, and to preferve the true pronunciation of the Perjians, which differs as widely from that df the Munimans in India^ as the language of our Court at SU James's differs- from that of tht rufticks in the Gentle Sbepherd.
^ '■ When the firjl vowel, as the Perjians pro- nounce it in the word bakhtj is doubled or pro- longed as in bakbt, it has the found of the fecond Ndgart vowel, and of the fir ft Arabick letter, that is, of our long vowel in cajl ; but i\it Arabs deride the Perjians for their broad pronunciation of this letter, which in Iran has always the found of our vowel in caU^ and is often fo prolated, as to refepible tht fourth and even the fifth of our Digitized by Google ^^ ON THE ORTHOGRAPHY long vowels.
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