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In a similar manner is conjugated Wanjan (H. jana) to go, used as 

 the auxiliary of the passive of other verbs : ivendo, going — way a (H. 

 gaya) gone : wary-tun, go thou. 



The personal pronouns awan, tun, and their plurals asin, tawin, ap- 

 proach nearly to the Sanskrit aham, tivam ; asmdn, yitsmdn (ohj.) : but 

 for the third personal pronouns, as in Hindi, the demonstratives he 

 and hu (H. yih and wuh) are employed, in lieu of the Sanskrit seh, sA, 

 tat ; in bhdka, sing. %T, Wr ; plur. ^", f?r«T. In the declensions of nouns 

 we miss the ka-ke-ki to which Timur's soldiery professed such an abhor- 

 rence, but it is merely softened into jo-je-jijd. Of these, however, we 

 find traces in the Hindi pronominal inflexions mujhe, tujhe, which seem 

 to be identical with mun-jo and to-jo of the Sindhi. This affix may be 

 the adjectival or possessive Jf ya of the Sanskrit : and analogies of both 

 might be pointed out in Greek, as in the nearly synonimous &a<ri\e-ia 

 and 0atnAi-/ca. One example of declension will suffice :— 



Murs, a man. 

 Singular. Plural. 



Xom. Ace. Voc. Murs, a man, oh man. Murs, men, oh men. 



Gen. Mursa-jo-ji-je-ji. Mursana-jo, &c. 



Dat. Mdrsa-khe. Mfirsana-khe. 



Abl. Marsa-khon. Mursana-khon. 



When the nominative ends in the vowel o the plural is in a ; the 

 feminine takes un in the pural, as zdl a woman, zdlun. 



We do not quarrel with the author for romanizing his grammar, as it 

 is principally intended for European students ; but we are inclined to 

 cavil at the employment of the Persian alphabet in conjunction with the 

 Roman rather than the Nagari, which would certainly conform with 

 more facility to the palatials, dentals, and aspirates of the Indian 

 family : ^W^i f%^1 ^t expresses more elegantly as well as more 

 precisely, Bachhri billi khon (from a bad cat) than ,j ». t £ JL jj.^sJ, 



It is a curious circumstance that most of the masculine "substantives 

 and adjectives terminate in 6 ; a peculiarity also remarked in the Zend 

 language, and strikingly exemplified on all the legends of our Bactrian 

 and Indo-Scythic coins, whether in the Greek or in the Pehlevi charac- 

 ter. The extensive vocabulary attached to the grammar may there- 

 fore perhaps prove of use in decyphering these ancient relics ; though 

 more might be expected from a scrutiny of the language of the 

 soi-disant descendants of the Kaidnian in the Kohistdn. We recom- 

 mend M. Masson to collect vocabularies from these people and from 

 the Sidhposhes. 



One of the most singular anomalies of the Sindhi language, is the 

 arrangement of its alphabet, which differs totally from the perfect 

 classification followed throughout the peninsula. The author makes 

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