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The use of Roman Characters for Oriental Languages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

O. Hanson
O. Hanson
Affiliation:
Namhkam, Northern Shan States, Burma.
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , April 1913 , pp. 423 - 426
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1913

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page 423 note 1 Transliteration and pronunciation of vernacular terms—

Vowels: a as in “father”; ă, short and somewhat suppressed sound of a; e as in “ten”; ē as a in “ale”; as in “machine”; u as oo in “moon”; ai as in “aisle”; au as ow in “cow”; aw as in “law”; and oi as in “oil”.

Consonants: all of them as in English, with the exception of chy, the nearest equivalent of which is our ch; g is always hard; hk, hp, and ht represent the aspirated forms of the explosives k, p, and t. Thus, such words as Jinghpaw are pronounced as Jing-hpaw, never as Jingh-paw.