- 1922.) A Dialect of Modern Awadhi. 307 
quality it becomes y or w respectively, e.g. lai + Gd = layao, 
gau + ai = gawai; 
(2) if a short vowel occurs at the end of a word and 
stands between two consonants having the same place o 
articulation it disappears, e.g. bhaji + jau = bhaj jau, bhags 
+ gawa = bhaggawa, sini + déu = sandéu, cali + diha = 
caldiha, mili + jat' = mil jat' but mili ga; 
(3) & breathed consonant at the end of a word is assi- 
milated with a voiced consonant of the same class, coming 
after it, e.g. sat + dai = saddai 
) a nasalisation + a breathed consonant becomes a 
full nasal before a consonant having the same place of articu- 
lation, e.g. pahiici jau = pahiic jau = pahuhjau, pac + cha = 
pane cha : 
(5) h coming between two vowels of which the first is 
short and is preceded by an unaspirated breathed or voiced 
stop, has a tendency to be combined with that consonant so . 
that an aspirated consonant results, e.g. kab + ahi = kabhaii, 
jat' + hai = jathyat, paca + hattari = pachattari, ke + hia = 
khia but kehi, mahi ; 
(6) rorr + a short vowel at the end of a word is assi- 
milated with a following d or I, e.g. cor + dariga = arsga, 
cor + lihis' = cdllihis', mari + dariba = maddariba, nikari + 
leu = nikalléu. : 
§ 10. Stress accent seems to play no part in this langu- 
age. 
§ 11. Words very frequently used have a tendency to 
eo their last syllable, e.g. 30 > jo, tau > ta,ki > ki, ka > 
Limits oF THE DrALect.! 
§ 12. The boundaries of Dt. Kheri are :-— 
Ripe he mvs Terai, east—Dt. Bahraich, south—Dts. 
Sitapur and Hardoi, west—Dt. Shahjahanpur and north- 
west— Dt. Pilibhit 
The dialect is ; surrounded by Népali on the north, by 
Awadhi of = raich on the east and by Kanauji on the west 
and neber 
The following are the chief points * of difference 
papa the dialects of Lakhimpur and Bahraich :— 
Bahraich. ) Lakhimpur. 
(1) Gen. mase. sg. postposi- | (1) kai and kar entirely ab- 
tions, kai, kar, ka, ka; sent ; ts : 
) gen. m asc. obl. ké al- (2) this use of ké is no 
most a general obl. post- — found at all ; 



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