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SPECIMENS OF LANGUAGES OF INDIA SPECIMENS OF LANGUAGES OF INDIA G. CAMPBELL DALTON % HOPKINSON *& METCALFE RAVENSHAW % EDGAR % CLARKE TROTTER % LEWIN % BUTLER % POWER HALLIDAY % LAMB % ALEXANDER % RIVER ROWLATT » ENDLE % SKREFSEND * WHITLEY EF} ASIAN EDUCATIONAL SERVICES US) NEW DELHI. 1986 C-2/15, SDA, P.B. No. 4534 New Delhi-110 616 ~ £845.. First Published :1874 First AES Reprint: 1986 Published by J. Jetley For ASIAN EDUCATIONAL SERVICES C-2/15, SDA, NEW DELHI-110 016 Printed at'G.P. Offset Printers New Dethi-110 035 SPECIMENS LANGUAGES OF INDIA, rucLoDING rHoME oF THE ABORIGINAL TRIBES OF BENGAL, CENTRAL PROVINCES, AND THE EASTERN FRONTIER. : Calcutta: PHINTED AT THE BENGAL SECRETARIAT PRESS. 1874, SPECIMENS OF LANGUAGES OF INDIA, ancLUDNe Tuous OF THE ABORIGINAL TRIBES OF BENGAL, oo CENTRAL PROVINCES, AND THE EASTERN FRONTIER. ——_+——— For this collection of languege-specimens, I am chiefly indebted to the officers now serving under me, and to those whom I formerly engaged in such work when I administered the Central Provinces. I have also obtained, for the purposes of comparison, specimens of the principal languages of other provinces, for which I am indebted to the kindness of friends and fellow-workmen with whom I have served in different parts of India. The Hon’ble R. Egerton has procured for me @ most interesting and important collection of Punjab languages prepared by Messrs, Udney, Gladstone, Tucker, Hawkins, and others; and to the Hon’ble R. Dalyell I am indebted for a collection of the civilised Dravidian languages of Southern India, The Hon'ble A. Eden, Chief Commissioner of British Burmah, haa been good enongh to procure for me eoveral of the languages of that country. The Political Agents in Khelat and Cashmere, Major Harrison and Mr. LePoer Wynne, have favoured me with the languages of those localities. The Mahratta and Guzratee specimens have been procured by Mr. Pedder, c.8., to whom my best thanks are due. Collected as these specimens chiefly have been by working officers burdened with many duties, and without any prescribed system of transliteration or spelling, it is probable that most of them cannot pretend to scientific accuracy ; but I have sought to make up for this by the number and variety of specimens of the less known languages, by which the various dialects may be compared and the forms may be checked and ascertained. It has elso been impossible to examine them critically in passing through the press. My hope is that the abundant raw materials thus afforded will afford ample scope for the work of the scientific philologist, I trust that from the materials thus available, much scientific information and order may be educed by competent hands into which these language-specimens may find their way.