Evolution of Awadhi (a Branch of Hindi).Awadhi is an Eastern Hindi dialect comprising masterpieces, as the Ramayana of Tulsi Das, the Padmawat of Muhammad Jaisi. A dialect wherein such renowned works are written is well worth studying in all its details. The present work on the evolution of Awadhi (Eastern Hindi dialect) is divided into two parts bound in a single volume. Part I, relates to the precise description of phonetic notation of Awadhi and is followed by graphic illustrations; and Part II, deals with the accurate and complete description of the ancient and modern stages of Awadhi. It discribes the eight parts of speech, the syntactical order of the sentence in Awadhi and is followed by two appendices comprising the specimens of Early and Modern Awadhi Texts. |
Contents
Name of the language | 1 |
Section | 6 |
Importance of Awadhi | 9 |
Dialects of Awadhi | 19 |
in Modern Awadhi 206 | 25 |
Early Awadhi semivowels | 47 |
Pronominal Adjectives in Early Awadhi | 58 |
Origin | 77 |
Section | 239 |
Origin | 251 |
Future Indicative in Early Awadhi | 260 |
19 | 286 |
Tenses | 293 |
Origin | 300 |
Origin | 307 |
CHAPTER III | 310 |
CHAPTER III | 81 |
Early Awadhi Sibilants and | 83 |
CHAPTER IV | 87 |
CHAPTER V | 91 |
CHAPTER VIII | 101 |
Inscriptions from Kymograph Machine | 104 |
Section | 107 |
PRONOUNS | 115 |
POSTPOSITIONS | 122 |
26770 | 135 |
Introductory | 157 |
First Person in Early Awadhi | 163 |
Origin | 170 |
244 | 184 |
Origin | 191 |
Interrogative in Early Awadhi | 199 |
CHAPTER II | 212 |
250 | 225 |
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Common terms and phrases
adjective Apabhramsa āpu aspirated Audha auxiliary Avadha bahuta bhai bidhi Bilasa Chatterji consonant denote derived from OIA Early Awadhi Eastern dialects ending feminine forms gender Gura haĩ hama hamar Hindustani hōi Insc instance intransitive jaga jāi Jayasi jehi jinha kachu kaha kahi kara karai kari kathā khazi king kōi Lakhimpuri Lala larika loan-words lord maha masc masculine Medial and final Modern Awadhi Muhammad nahi nāma nasal nasalisation naziz nouns Nur Muhammad oblique occur initially Pāli participle passive plosive plural postpositions Prakrits pronoun rājā Rāma razja represents root rūpa saba Sanskrit singular Sītā Śiva sound syllable taba tāhi tehi tense termination thou tinha Tulsi Tulsidas tumha verb vowel Western Hindi whispered vowel words yaha