George A. Grierson
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This work decidedly remains the best example of the record of a collection of folklore taken straight from the mouth of one to whom they had been handed down accuracy, in this case the Rawis or reciters. The stories and songs in this book were recited to Sir Aurel Stein in Kashmir by Hatim Tilawon of Panzil in the Sind Valley, a professional story-teller held in particular esteem throughout the region. They were taken down at his dictation by sir Stein himself, ...
Bihari Grammar is a very valuable and rare grammar which was compiled by a great eminent linguist and philologist under the orders of the Government of Bengal. The grammar is in constant and urgent demand. No such document is available presently on the subject. Bihari Language is being spoken in the province of Bihar, in the eastern portion of the North western provinces and in the northern portion of the central provinces. It is a compendium grammar of the ...
India is rightly called the epitome of the world-which statement is true, apart from other consideration, both anthropologically and linguistically, As far as the languages are concerned, India is representedalmost all the families of the world-Indo-European, Mongolian, Dravidian, Austric, etc. This position is as well true even about North Eastern India. This region, a small part of the country as it is, abounds in languages belonging to quite a few families and ...
With the enoromous increase of literacy all over the world, the extension of the frontiers of knowledge than before, and the coming of the countries of the world closer to one another, students, scholars and people of various nations have felt an imperative necessity languages of the different regions of the world. Admittedly, a dictionary of any language is one of the most essential reference book a learner needs to know how a word is spelled, how it is ...
The Present work consist of three parts - a Grammer, a series of sentences in English and Kashmiri English Vocabulary. The author has endeavoured to make the grammer as simple as possible. The Chief particularities of Kashmiri-pecularities which have been altogether ignored by previous writers are the existence of so-called matra vowels. A correct knowledge of these is essential to the comprehension of the most ordinary grammatical forms.