Conditions of Bai'at and Responsibilities of an Ahmadi — Page xii
C ONDITIONS OF B AI ‘ AT AND R ESPONSIBILITIES OF AN A H MAD I xii q , a deep guttural k sound. ’ , a sort of catch in the voice. Short vowels are represented by ‘ a’ for (like ‘u’ in ‘ bud’ ); ‘ i’ for (like ‘ i’ in ‘ bid’ ); ‘ u’ for (like ‘ oo’ in ‘wood’ ); the long vowels by ‘ a’ for or (like ‘ a’ in ‘ father’ ); ‘i’ for or (like ‘ ee’ in ‘deep’ ); ‘ ai’ for (like ‘ i’ in ‘ site’ ); ‘ u’ for (like ‘ oo’ in ‘ root’ ): ‘ au’ for, (resembling ‘ ou’ in ‘ sound’ ). Please note that in transliterated words the letter ‘ e’ is to be pronounced as in ‘prey’ which rhymes with ‘ day ’; however the pronunciation is flat without the element of English diphthong. If in Urdu and Persian words, letter ‘e’ is length- ened a bit more it is transliterated as ‘ei’ , to be pronounced as ‘ ei’ in ‘ feign’ without the element of diphthong; thus is transliterated as ‘ Kei’. For the nasal sound of ‘ n’ we have used the symbol ‘ n ’. Thus Urdu word would be trans- literated as ‘ mei n ’. 1 The consonants not included in the above list have the same phonetic value as in the principal languages of Europe. 1. These transliterations are not included in the system of transliteration by Royal Asiatic Society.