A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c18.67

v3.c18.67

In O. one also hears a form in *wâlâ* added to the infinitive, as पाइबाओयाला “a receiver.” I suspect, however, that this is a recent introduction from the Hindi. There is no *w* in Oriya, and in trying to express the sound, they imitate the Bengalis, and put that form of य which it has as the last member of a nexus (the *ya-phala* as they call it), behind an ओ. They pronounce this extraordinary combination *wa*, and not *oya*, as it should be. The natural genius of the language has no form for the agent; instead of saying “the speaker,” they would say, “he who speaks,” or, if educated, would use the Sanskrit agent in तृ.