A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian Family of Languages c4.2

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c4.2

Long vowels are invariably marked thus,—ā: when no such accent is placed over a vowel, it is intended that it should be pronounced short. *E* and *o*, being invariably long in Sanskrit, are left unaccented in the transliteration of Sanskrit words in works treating of Sanskrit. The Dravidian languages having short *e* and *o*, as well as long, it is to be understood that they are to be pronounced short when unaccented.*

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