Excerpt from A Dictionary of the Principal Languages Spoken in the Bengal Presidency: Viz. English, Bangali, and Hindustani; In the Roman Character; With Walker's Pronunciation of All the Difficult or Doubtful English Words Of the last two orders of letters, h ranks with the gutturals'; y and sh with the palatines r and sh with the linguals; l and s with the dentals; and v with the labials. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.