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The Vowels
Going
strictly by the rule laid down earlier, we now realize that the following vowel,
by virtue of the macron on the basic vowel I, i is to be pronounced the
way we pronounced the preceding one, although the sound has to be "extended".
Obviously, this vowel is
pronounced the way one would pronounce the letters "EE" in the
English word FEET.
The following are some Kashmiri
words which use this vowel: