A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India: To Wit, Hindi, Panjabi, Sindhi, Gujarati, Marathi, Oriya and Bangali |
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Sanskrit the parent of the seven languages
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Prakrits
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Second exception elements neither Sanskritic nor Aryan
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accent adjective affix anuswâra aorist Aryan becomes Bengali Bengali and Oriya Bhojpuri Bhû causal cerebral Chand common compound consonant dative dental derived dialects early Tadbhavas eastern Hindi elided elision ending examples existence feminine final vowel gender genitive guages Gujarati Hindi Indian inflectional inserted instances Konkani Kutila lengthened letter locative long vowel Maharashtri Marathi masc masculine meaning modern languages nasal neuter nexus non-Aryan nouns oblique form occurs origin Orissa Oriya oxytone palatal Pali Panjabi passive past participle peculiar phonetic plural postpositions Prakrit Prakrit form present preterite probably pronounced pronunciation rejected retained root rule Sanskrit words semivowel sense seven languages short vowel shortened sibilant Sindhi Sing singular softened sound speech stem substantive suffix syllable synthetical Tatsama tense termination traces Trumpp Vararuchi verb verbal vulgar writing written को