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0167 Results of a Scientific Mission to India and High Asia : vol.3
Results of a Scientific Mission to India and High Asia : vol.3 / Page 167 (Grayscale High Resolution Image)

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CONTENTS.

I. Considerations on the Method employed.
Page.
1. Collection and elaboration of material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
2. Principles of writing foreign languages in a European alphabet . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Phonetic transcription.—Transliteration.
3. Limits to physical accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
4. Alphabet selected; importance of simplicity for practical use . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
5. Account of systems hitherto in use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

II. Detail of the Alphabet used.
1. Letters and signs used for the phonetic transcription . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Alphabetical registers.
Modification of the letters and signs.
Vowels.—Consonants.—Syllables in general.
2. Detail of the vowels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Pronunciation of the vowels.
The vowel system of Sanskrit.
Vowels of imperfect formation.
Diphthongs.
Nasal vowels.
3. Detail of the consonants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Pronunciation of the consonants.
Tibetan consonants not pronounced.
Duplication.—Composition.—Substitution.
4. The accent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Nature and general occurrence.
Principal accent.—Secondary accents.
Limit to the receding of the accent.

III. Arrangement of the Glossary.
1. Succession of the various parts of the explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
2. Terms prevailing in composition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
3. Alphabetical abstract register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166