'Military Report on South-West Persia, Including the Provinces of Khuzistan (Arabistan), Luristan, and Part of Fars' [‎33] (60/466)

LIST OF AUTHORITIES CONSULTED.
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Jourrials of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Vols. VII^ IX, XVI.
Gazetteer of Persia (Sir C. M. MacGregor).
The Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Pilot.
Official Documents and Reports,
Personal Reconnaissance Notes.
Works by De Bode (MacGregor).
N.B.—Transliteration.
The difficulty of transliterating sounds uttered by a Turki speaking race
is considerable in consequence of the very many euphonic variations of both
consonants and vowels.
" The guiding principle of the Turki variation appears to be this^ that
the mouth having assumed a certain shape for the pronunciation of certain
sounds, it is difficult in the compass of the same word to shift the position of
the organs; or^ when a hard breathing is coming out^ to change it suddenly
into a soft breathing, and vice versa " Thus gutturals k, g, gh tend to bring
any guttural contained in an affix into the same class r dentals, dentals and
liquids, liquids. Thus is it that g and k, d and i, f and p, b and p^, &c., and the
vowels generally, are interchangeable {Shaw).
In transliterating Persian words, the rules laid down by the Government
of India have been as far as possible observed.