A History of Assam c7.s1.15

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so is not one to which any particular significance need be attached. As already pointed out it is by no means uncommon for people of one race to speak a language appertaining to an entirely different stock. Aryan languages have displaced other forms of speech in most parts of Northern India, and instances of linguistic instability are common amongst uncivilized races, *vide* Census of India 1911, Vol. I, Part I, page 328.