A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v1.c4.2

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CONTENTS.—§ 1. SANSKRIT THE PARENT OF THE SEVEN LANGUAGES.—§ 2. FIRST EXCEPTION, ELEMENTS ARYAN, BUT NOT SANSKRITIC—THE PRAKRITS.—§ 3. SECOND EXCEPTION, ELEMENTS NEITHER SANSKRITIC NOR ARYAN.—§ 4. ELEMENTARY DIVISION OF THE SEVEN LANGUAGES. TATSAMA, TADBJAVA, DESAJA.—§ 5. EARLY AND LATE TADBJAVAS.—§ 6. THE ACCENT.—§ 7. ABSENCE OF DATA DURING NINE CENTURIES.—§ 8. PROPORTION OF WORDS OF THE THREE CLASSES IN EACH LANGUAGE.—§ 9. DIGRESSION ON THE HINDI.—§ 10. PROPORTION OF WORDS RESUMED.—§ 11. QUANTITY OF ARABIC AND PERSIAN WORDS IN EACH LANGUAGE.—§§ 12-14. INFLECTIONAL SYSTEMS OF THE SEVEN LANGUAGES,—QUESTION OF NON-ARYAN INFLUENCE.—§ 15. STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT IN THE PRESENT DAY.—§ 16. THE CHARACTER.—§ 17. PANJABI.—§ 18. BENGALI.—§ 19. ORIYA.—§ 20. PRONUNCIATION, अ.—§ 21. THE OTHER VOWELS.—§ 22. CONSONANTS.—§ 23. SEMI-VOWELS.—§ 24. SIBILANTS.—§ 25. NASALS.—§ 26. COMPOUND CONSONANTS—PECULIARITIES OF BENGALI.—§ 27. PECULIARITIES OF SINDHI.—§ 28. LITERATURE.—§ 29. DIALECTS.—§ 30. GENERAL REMARKS ON CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE OF THE VARIOUS LANGUAGES, AND THEIR PROBABLE FUTURE FATE.—TABLE OF INDIAN ALPHABETS.