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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(JUNE, 1895.
for 30, pronounced sa in Cantonese, and in Canton regarded as a character. The syllable lai occurs four times, in each case the symbol differing widely, whilst having a certain analogy to the other cases, and in no case strongly resembling any Chinese character. The syllable
lü occurs six times, the symbol in each case slightly varying; but it is unsatisfactory to see one of its forms, name also doing duty for the syllable hiu it. The syllable 12 t'ungoccurs twice, but the two Lolo symbols differ from each other considerably. The syllable F p'ing occurs twice, the symbol being manifestly a slightly abbreviated form of the Chinese character . The syllable + t'ien occurs four times : bat the symbol is in one case the English capital L (which also does duty for another syllable); in another the Chinese character I; in a third two Chinese characters run into one ; and in the fourth a complicated sign, having no resemblance whatever to any of the other three, or to any Chinese character. The syllable tsao W occurs twice. The syllable + po *H occurs twice. and a third time as tu' The syllable yih occurs five or six times as Z, L OL. The syllable tu TP occurs twice as F and once as 3. The syllable + ch'ung occurs hrice, but though there is a certain similarity in each case, the symbol is generally speaking tindefinite and unsatisfactory. The symbol jén occurs twice, and the same remark may be made of it. The syllable tri occurs foar times, all four symbols differing totally one from the other. The syllable chwan occurs thrice, in each case the symbol differing seriously. The syllable ku occurs twice, the resemblance being unsatisfactory. The syllable 5 ch‘ang also occurs twice with the same result. The syllable chi 212 occurs four times, all four symbols being unsatisfactory.
Thus, out of the 130 Lolo symbols in MS. No. 1, we find that 20 occur 80 times, so that 60 must be deducted from the total. Of the 20 symbols which thus occur more than once, we find that less than half are at all consistent or uniform. In other words, putting the most favourable construction apon the evidence before us, all that we can say is that
is sounded as sung
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p'ing
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tsao yih
