| There
are 36 consonants, 25 of which are clubbed
into groups of 5 letters with closely related sounds. Each of these
consonants have, in turn, about 14 other variants when you add each of
the vowel 'sound' (not letter) to it. For instance, the first
consonant, 'ka' has
variants like 'kaah', 'ki',
'kee', 'ku',
'koo', 'kai',
'kow' etc. As
mentioned earlier, these variants are obtained by writing the consonant
along with a symbol/sign that represents the corresponding vowel
equivalents (More
about
tthis in Lesson 4). |