Supposing we wanted to make say a meaningless two letter word with a starting ( initial) letter K and ending with N. Note again that the detached form is on your extreme right then the initial, medial and final. You may have noted that the detached and final form form are usually very similar. The above figure has the detached, initial. If it occurs in the middle of a word eg luKy it is written in the medial form 3 and if it occurs at the end of the word as in ducK it is like the 4th final form to your extreme left. If it occurs in the beginning of a word as in the word Kill it is written as in the next one along -ie its inital form marked 2. If for example you look at the figure below, K on its own is on your extreme right marked detached. For example lets look at the letter K and N in in the next figure.Įach letter is written in a slightly different form depending on whether it comes in the beginning, middle or end of a word or whether it occurs on its own ie in a detached form.

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