A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v1.c5.95
A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v1.c5.95
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This Bengali e is pronounced more like the English a in mat, rat, etc., than like the full Italian e in veno, avete, etc., and seems to be a lineal descendant of the short ĕ of Prakrit.