The Imperial Gazetteer of India —— Argaon to Bardwān

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ISBN: 9781333020057 出版年：2016 页码：441 Secretary of State for India in Council Forgotten Books

It should be stated that no attempt has been made to distinguish between the long and short sounds of e and o in the Dravidian languages, which possess the vowel-sounds in 'bet' and 'hot' in addition to those given above. Nor has it been thought necessary to mark vowels as long in cases where mistakes in pronunciation were not likely to be made.