1897.] Janardan Singh — Dialects spolcen in Baghelkhand. 



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Different postpositions. 



Different yerbal 



ENDINGS. 



Changes in the basis 



BEFORE receiving 

 PARTICLES. 



Bagheli. 



Bundeli. 



Bagheli. 



Bundgli. 



Baghsli. 



Bundeli. 



For him. 



He said. 



Is coming ? 



^"T^ ft^lT 



'3f^ ^IT 



^ ^f%^ ^ ^ft 



'H-nfflt 



^T^% 







He had written. 



Is going? 







^T f^f^^^-gj^f^^^fft 



'^^T «T[m ^ ^^1 STlff % 



Towards 



fclie river. 



Art thou not seeing. 



What do you say ? 



Jift «?i 



ifft^srit 







^T^^r9t%* 



*T ^'^cT ^t 



I have no moi 



ley with me. 



They had already said. 



Are you giving? 



^^ ^W ^iT?jT 



jft^^Wt^T 



^t ^f%#ir ^3ir^^^% 



%^ ^ fk 



tW^-^f^if^ 



t^r ^ti ^T^ 



^^^T^ 



^r^f^^S %'f^t^ 



ir^l* 





By 



me. 



When I went. 







^tt^^ 



^^^flt 





^I^^i?Jl% 







* N.B.—^ (ya) is added to the bases in Baghelkhandi before the 

 particles. 



The intonation with which the Bundels speak is also different 

 and there are many new words in Bundeli which are not known in 

 Bagheli. 



4. The people of Baghelkhand may be divided into several tribes 

 or clans, inhabiting separate parts of the country, and giving distinct 

 names to the tracts they inhabit. But these separate tribes do not 

 speak separate dialects, though each has some peculiar words and 

 expressions of its own. These variations are too few to justify us 

 in giving them distinct names as dialects. There are variations in the 

 pronunciation and forms of words in distances of every few miles. But 

 these are very slight and may be found to change from village to village 

 till they merge into the forms of speech of Allahabad or Mirzapur or 

 other British districts that happen to be in the neighbourhood. 



5. It appears to be an orthodox belief that Gondi or 

 Gondani is derived from the Dravidian or some other non-Aryan 



