A History of Indian Literature v1.c12: Directions for Pronunciation of Indian (Sanskrit, Prākrit, Pāli) Names and Words, Written in Roman Characters

A History of Indian Literature v1.c12

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Directions for Pronunciation of Indian (Sanskrit, Prākrit, Pāli) Names and Words, Written in Roman Characters

Vowels. a अ as a “ neutral vowel ” like English “ short \mathbf{u} ” in but. / \d{r} ऋ as a vowel, like \mathbf{er} in Scots English baker. / .e & ए / o & ओ} {l} as long \bar{e} (in English they) and \bar{o} (in English stone), / without diphthongal character.

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Palatals. c च like ch in English child. / j ज like j in English just.

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Cerebrals. $.\d{t} & ट / \d{t}h & ठ / \d{d} & ड / \d{d}h & ढ / \d{n} & ण} {l} like English “ dentals ”, while the Sanskrit dentals / (t त, th थ, d द, dh ध, n न) are pronounced like / dentals in Italian and French.$

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Sibilants. .s (or s, s) श (palatal) / s ष (cerebral) like sh in English ship.

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Nasals. n ङ (guttural) & like ng in English sing / n ञ (palatal) & ,, gn in French montagne / m (Anusvāra) & ,, n in French Jean.

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h (Visarga) “ a surd breathing, a final h-sound (in {l} the European sense of h ) uttered in / the articulating position of the / preceding vowel ” (Whitney).

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Some of the Publications of the Calcutta University on Language and Literature

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**History of the Bengali Language and Literature** (in English)—By Rai Bahadur Dineschandra Sen, B.A., D.Litt. Demy 8vo, pp. 1067. Rs. 16-12.

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A comprehensive view of the development of the Bengali Language and Literature from the earliest times down to 1850. This book has very little affinity with the author's epoch-making Bengali work on the same subject, the arrangement adopted in the present work being altogether new and the latest facts, not anticipated in the Bengali treatise, having been incorporated in it. It has been accepted by orientalists everywhere as the most complete and authoritative work on the subject. The book is illustrated by many pictures including five coloured ones.

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**Some Problems of Indian Literature**—By Prof. M. Winternitz, Ph.D. Royal 8vo, pp. 130. Rs. 2-8.

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*Contents:* The Age of the Veda—Ascetic Literature in Ancient India—Ancient Indian Ballad Poetry—Indian Literature and World-Literature—Kautilya Arthasastra—Bhasa.

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**The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language**—By Sunitikumar Chatterjee, M.A. (Cal.), D.Lit. (London). (In two Vols., F'cap 4to.) Vol. I—Introduction and Phonology, pp. i-xci, 1-648. Vol. II—Morphology, Additions and Corrections, and Index of Bengali Words, pp. 649-1179. Two Vols. Uncut Edges ... Rs. 20.

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"This admirable work," says Sir George Grierson in his *Foreword*, "which is a fine example of wide knowledge and of scholarly research, is the result of a happy combination of proficiency in facts and familiarity with theory, and exhibits a mastery of detail controlled and ordered by the sobriety of true scholarship." In its MS. form the work was read by and obtained the highest approval of some of the most distinguished scholars in the field of Indian Linguistics in Europe, and it may be said to indicate a land-mark in the history of Philological researches into Indian Languages. It is the first systematic and detailed history of a Modern Indo-Aryan Language written by an Indian, and incidentally, as it is comparative in its treatment, taking into consideration facts in other Indo-Aryan speeches, it is an invaluable contribution to the scientific study of the Modern Indo-Aryan languages as a whole.

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The Bengali words have throughout been given in Bengali as well as in Roman characters.

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History of Bengali Language—By Bijaychandra Majumdar, B.L. (Second Edition—Revised and Enlarged). Demy 8vo, pp. 323. Rs. 7-0.

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The book gives a sketch, in broad outline, of the origin of the Bengali Language and the various influences—linguistic, ethnic, social—that shaped and moulded its earlier history.

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