Omkar N.
Wakhlu & Bharat Wakhlu
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Chapter 1
The Alphabet
There are seventeen vowels and
twenty seven consonants in Kashmiri. These are given below:
Small Case:
Capital (Upper Case):
Capitals are given in the first
line and small case in the next.
The phonetic guide to the
vowels and consonants are given below. It may interest the reader to know that
in the English language also there are a total of forty-four (44) phonetic
sounds viz, 21 vowel sounds and 23 consonants (See Oxford Word-Power Dictionary
O. U. Press 1993)
Another way of writing the
Kashmiri alphabet is the same as followed for English, writing the vowels and
consonants together in the following order:
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