 | Friedrich Max Müller - Sanskrit language - 1866 - 340 pages
...of the tongue against the roof of the palate. As a matter of fact the ordinary pronunciation of t, d, n in English is what Hindus would call lingual,...dentals by their linguals, not by their own dentals ; eg fiX<^4t Direkfar, 'N<!*kl<^ Gavarnmant, &c. * 6. The Yisarga, JihvdmuUya and Upadhmdniya are not now... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Sanskrit language - 1866 - 344 pages
...of the tongue against the roof of the palate. As a matter of fact the ordinary pronunciation of t, d, n in English is what Hindus would call lingual,...represent the English dentals by their linguals, not by then1 own dentals ; eg fiii^jt. Direktar, JN4*Ul^ Gavdrnmant, &c. * 6. The Visarga, Jihvdmuliya and... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Sanskrit language - 1870 - 338 pages
...of the tongue against the roof of the palate. As a matter of fact the ordinary pronunciation of t, d, n in English is what Hindus would call lingual,...natives naturally represent the English dentals by their linguale, not by their own dentals ; eg fiX*!^ Direktor, JNH*ÛK4 Gavarnmenf, &c. * 6. The Visarga,... | |
 | John Frederick Browne - Bengali language - 1881 - 56 pages
...inkhorn. Ph, however, is pronounced like / in the English language. (c.) The undotted d is pronounced by bringing the tip of the tongue against the very edge of the upper teeth; the dotted d is pronounced like the English d. (d.) The vowel e is pronounced like e in the... | |
 | John Frederick Browne - Hindi language - 1882 - 60 pages
...Ph, however, is pronounced like / in the English language. (c.) The undotted d and t are pronounced by bringing the tip of the tongue against the very edge of the upper teeth. The dotted d and t are pronounced like the English d and t. (d.) The vowel e is pronounced like... | |
 | Albert Pike - Avesta - 1924 - 732 pages
...English of /, d and / is what Hindus would call lingual, and the Sanskrit dentals are distinguished by bringing the tip of the tongue against the very edge of the upper front teeth. The dental 5 sounds like s in 'sin'; the lingual sh like sh in 'shun'; the palatal { (or... | |
 | Ferdinand Kittel - Foreign Language Study - 1993 - 502 pages
...tí, ¿. e. o, (see § 39). &>. la. This letter has the sound of the English letter 1 that is formed by bringing the tip of the tongue against the very edge of the upper front teeth, and pronouncing the Kannada letter '-'' (a) after it. (The Kannada letter sJ has neither... | |
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The palatal letters ^ ch and *lj have the sound of ch in 'church* and ofj in 'join.' 5. The lingual letters are said to be pronounced by bringing the lower surface of the tongue against the roof of the palate. As a matter of fact the ordinary pronunciation... 