The History of the Bengali Language

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Asian Educational Services, 2000 - Bengali language - 298 pages
 

Contents

LECTURE I
1
logypp 12 the unscientific methods of Philologists cri
8
never a separate languageIsolation and want of culture
12
LECTURE II
18
The Geography of Old Bangla and of other
32
Tamralipti for its capitalfive sons of Bali progenitors
35
Utkalas mentioned in the Puranas and in the Raghu
42
THE INFLUENCE OF THE DRAVIDIAN SPEECHES ON BENGALI
55
change of accent pp 107109Vedic accent in metrical
113
Illustrations of Bengali metrical system p 118How
120
PHONOLOGY AND ACCENT concld
128
Pāli p 129 Bengali Sandhi system p 130 Samāsa
135
LECTURE X
156
Aryan peoples p 157 The linguistic strata in the Vedas
163
Losses in words denoting Numerals p 167 Vedic man
174
LECTURE XI
192

LECTURE VI
75
pp 7677Vedic and carried at times a half nasal
85
The nasal sound p 90 I I I p 93 and
102
107উদাত্ত অনুদাত্ত and স্বরিৎ p 107 Change of meaning
107
Pāli a literary speech p 197 The Gatha language
199
THE LITERARY PRAKṚTAS
214
Some anomalies in the survivals of Maharastri and Saura
221
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