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Excerpt from Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages: With Words, Phrases, and Sentences to Be Collected In dealing with a new Indian language in a practical way, _onc.or the first things to be done will naturally be to determine how it shall be written down; what sounds it has, and what characters shall be used to represent them. This is by no means an easy matter. It. Is always hard to understand the sounds of an unfamiliar language so thoroughly as to be able to repro duce them with accuracy. Moreover, no two languages are made up of precisely the same sounds. Every Indian tongue will be found to contain4, introduction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.