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Excerpt from Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1871, Vol. 9That is to say, as the commentary explains, of these simple vowels, two and two Short, two and two long, or a long and a short, are called similar. The meaning seems rather to be that, of the three triplets which make up the category of simple vowels, the first two in each triplet, the short and the long