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On the Origin of the Hindvi Language. 



[No. 5, 



The Chahdrdurvish, p. 2, which has an admixture of 16 foreign in 

 every 40 Bengali words, proclaims itself to be current Bengali, translated 

 into it in order that it may be easily understood by the Bengali public. 



Kazi Safi-uddin, in his preface to the Kilas ul ambid, says 



c*re "^kw, 4^:n 45:K$ ?rT§T*n ^T<rT*r s^srsn <e?rTt?n 3^5 ^5 



" It contains accounts of prophets and messengers according to 

 the holy Koran and the Hadith, and now I, having got it trans- 

 lated into Bengali, print it at a great cost." 



The language of the translator, Reza-ullah, will be illustrated by 

 the following extract, in which we have 17 foreign for every 24 Ben- 

 gali words. 



Bl Fl B2 B3 F2 F3 F4 B4 B5 



E 5 F6 F7 F8 F9 F10 Fll B6B7 



B 8 F 12 F 13 F 14 B 9 B 10 B 11 B 12 F 15 B 13 



B 14 B 15 B 16 B 17 F 16 B 18 B 19 B 20 B 21 B 22 



^tf* 1%3i *trft i ^tt*ri *rc<rre ^tc?r ^uc*f I^kh i £forw ^®?d 



F 17 B 23 B 24 



EMENDATIONS. 



P. 498, line 4. For " i, u and W" read <c ^, te. and neuter nouns in n." 

 P. 498 line 7. For " singular number of words ending in other than a is as," 

 read " plural number is bhyas" 



