Nubuwwat & Khilafat Prophethood & its Successorship — Page vi
N UBUWWAT AND K HIL A FAT vi 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 e is lengthened a bit more it is transliterated as ei to be pronounced as ei in “feign” without the element of diph- thong thus is transliterated as “Kei”. For the nasal sound of n we have used the symbol ñ. Thus Urdu word would be transliter- ated as “ mei ñ ”. 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.