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Phonetics – 3 (Discourse 3) (1)

[1] Earlier I said that the letters [...] with a whistle. They are whistled aspirates (uśmavarńa). At [...] “Caesar”, but not in modern English.

Phonetics – 2 (Discourse 2) (1)

[6] Among the thirty-four consonants, [...] called uśmavarńa [aspirates]. When they are pronounced they [...] example, janttu-jánowár.

Ka to Kandara (Discourse 16) (1)

[13] Since the letter ka is related [...] conjuncts) or uśmavarńa [aspirates]. These aspirated sounds are known [...] first consonant of the alphabet.

Case and Case-Endings – 2 (Discourse 13) (6)

[5] In the case of the consonants, [...] error-filled vulgar language the aspirates are, for all practical purposes, [...] pronounced as an unaspirated letter.

[6] Among the twelve dialects of Bengali, [...] purposes, no pronunciation of the aspirates. In two dialects there is partial [...] is proper pronunciation of the aspirates in Calcutta Bengali, but we only [...] word. Elsewhere we write them as aspirates and we think of them as aspirates but we pronounce them the same [...] that way also? Absolutely not!

[7] Generally speaking, in Rarhi Bengali [...] (Malda – Murshidabad) the aspirates are fully pronounced throughout. [...] used to answer vála ashi.