72 Hepnrt of the XIITth Congress of Orientalists, Hamburg. [Apr. 



Report on the Progress of the Linguistic Survey of India presented to the 

 Xlllth International Congress of Orientalists. 



The Linguistic Survey of India has made considerable progress since 

 I liad the honour of submitting a report to theXIIth Oriental Congress. 

 I laid before that Congress two volumes, one containing the survey of 

 the Bengali language, and the other a collection of various languages, 

 spoken on the North-Western Frontier of British India. I have now 

 the honour to lay before the present Congress two more volumes, one 

 dealing with the Bodo, Naga, and Kachin groups of the Tibeto-Burman 

 family, and the other dealing with Eastern Hindi. 



The Survey has now arrived at a stage at which I can forecaste its 

 extent, and the probable number of volumes which it will contain. 

 Subject to subsequent revision, the following is the proposed list of 

 volumes : — 



Vol. I. Introductory. • 



Vol. II. Mon-Khmer and Tai families. 



Vol. III., Part I. Tibeto-Burman languages of Tibet and North 

 Assam. 

 Part II. Bodo, Naga, and Kachin groups of the Tibeto- 

 Burman languages. 

 Part III. Kuki-Chin and Burma groups of the Tibeto- 

 Burman languages. 

 Vol. IV. Dravido-Munda languages. 

 Vol. V. Indo- Aryan languages, Eastern group. 

 Part I. Bengali and Assamese. 

 Part II. Bihari and Oriya. 

 Vol. VI. Indo- Aryan languages, Mediate group (Eastern 



Hindi.) 

 Vol. VII. Indo- Aryan languages, Southern group (Marathi.) 

 Vol. VIII. Indo-Aryan languages, North-Western group (Sindhi, 

 Lahnda, Kashmiri, and the "Non-Sanskritic " lan- 

 guages.) 

 Vol, IX. Indo-Aryan languages, Central group. 



Part I. Western Hindi and Panjabi. 

 Part II. Rajasthani and Gujarati. 

 Part III. Himalayan languages. 

 Vol. X. Iranian family. 



Vol. XI. "Gipsy" languages and supplement. 

 As regards the progress made in these volumes : — 



Vol. T. must naturally wait till all the rest has been finished. 

 Vol. II. is complete in manuscript, and is now in the press. 



