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explained by such other terms as we see them use, viz., 
‘* Bracmana-Marasta,’’ ‘‘ Bracmana-Canarim,’’ and ‘‘ Bracmana 
vulgar,’’ under which we recognize Marathi and Konkani 
Sir H. Yule (Hobson-Jobson, s.v. Canara) shows how the 
term Canarijs is applied by the old Portuguese authors to the 
Konkani people and language of Goa. _ The Jesuit Missions in 
Konkani. The large admixture of Marathi, which they con- 
tain, has made some look upon them as written in Marathi 
rather than in Konkani. The efforts made by Bro. John 
Goncalves (ante 1579) to cast ‘* Canarim”’ types must, probably, 
be understood of Konkani to be printed in Kanarese type, 
for recording Konkani.! Eventually, the Kanarese alphabe 
was made use of, we are told. (CE. Dr. G. A Grierson, Lin- 
guistic Survey of India, Vol. VII, p. 167.) Our impression, 
however, is that as Portuguese ioe a printed 
Konkani in Rom e.g., Fr. Thomas Steph (Cf. Fr. J. 
Dauimann, Die Syibnohbutda und dies inencme arta 1891, 
-22.) 
A similar confusion obtained between Malayalam and Tamil. 
Yule (Hobson-Jobson, s.v. Mal abar) i is correct, we believe, when 
he Aree out that the « u ‘Malabar?’ np wee in which Fr. ui 
a ‘*Grammaire pour apprendre Ja Nada Tamoul plguirement 
appelée le Malabar... Faite a Pontichéry et achevée le 18° 
Novembre 1728 par un Mi se tae de la Compagnie de Jésus 
de la Mission du Carnate.’’?* The Catholic Missionaries of 
‘sass still pone: of their Tamil Christians as ‘‘ nos Mala- 
There can be no doubt that Badaga meant Telugu (cf. 
Yule’s Hobson-Jobson, s.v. Badega). Fr. de la Lane was the 
author of a Telugu Dictionary and a Telugu Grammar. A 
copy of the Jatter in the Bibl. Ristionale of Paris is inscribed 
ndre la langue Telenga dite vul- 
I r un 
rr Cf. Imper. Gazett. of Sages h x Sac 007. No. Le 
a yn R 
2 The author was Fr Cf. Junien Vinson, Rev. 
de oe ‘a on ee comparée, Paris, Maisonneuve, 1899. Vol. XXXII, 
is 
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