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For the use of readers who are familiar with Indian alphabets and the system popularly known in India as the "Hunterian system," The Hunterian system is a method for transliterating Indian languages into the Roman alphabet, established by Sir William Wilson Hunter in the late 19th century. the following table—arranged in the order in which the sounds are physically produced by the voice (an order also followed by the Tibetans)—will show the system of spelling Sanskrit words adopted here. It should be noted that this system is almost identical to the one used in the widely used dictionaries of Monier-Williams and Childers. Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1819–1899) and Robert Caesar Childers (1838–1876) were pioneering scholars whose Sanskrit and Pali dictionaries became standard reference works for students of Indian languages. The different forms used in Tibetan for aspirates Sounds produced with an accompanying puff of air, like the 'kh' in 'backhoe'. and palato-sibilants Sounds produced with the tongue against the roof of the mouth that have a hissing quality, like 'ch' or 'sh'. are placed within brackets: