1876.] 



E. B. 



Shaw— On the Ghahhah Languages. (Wakhi). 



latsar,* yao jinib ki da-ya chazm-an yMsht a-maz vinan waz 



because that with those eyes they (ace.) me see I 



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yav 



them 



sa vinam 









may see. 









6. I 



rwar 



i 



mir 



one 



day 



a 



king 



ramattei ki 



da 



zii 



ordered 



that 



In 



my 



sa sha 5 ir-an rizdei, jallad 



from (with) poet (abl.) become angry, executioner 

 prut shai. Jallad khangar wiiziiman-ar 



in my presence kill (him). Executioner sword to fetch 



tagdei. Sha'ir hazir khalgav-ar khattei : ta khangar wiiziiman-its 

 went. Poet present people to said: till sword fetching whilst 



a-maz chipat diid ki mir khush wast latsar. Mir kandei, yao 



me slap strike (ye) that king happy may-become. King smiled his 



gunah shokhhstei. 

 fault passed over. 



7. I khalg hip martaba gottei. I dost mubarak gokhn- 



a person great dignity obtained, A friend congratulation in order-to 



ar wazdei. Ya khalg porstei : tu kui, chiz-ar at wazdei ? Yao 

 do came. That person asked : thou who what for (thou) hast come ? His 



dost sharminda vittei. Khattei: A-maz na dish' -a? ti kadimi dost 

 friend ashamed became. He said : me not knowest ? thy old friend 

 wuz j niiiwn-ar da ti prtit am wazdei ; kshon-am ki kur 

 I ; in order to weep into thy presence (I) came I heard that blind 



at vitkei.f 

 (thou) hast become. 



8. I khalg darwesh dastar dozdei rannei darwesh da-kabristan ragdei 



neinei. 



gana 



yar 



turban took fled 

 khattei : ki ya 



beggar at grave-yard went 

 dhai ti dastar da bagh- 

 man thy turban in garden 

 at nieng chiz 



(thou) hast sat down what 

 ha- dram ap vizit. 



a person 

 Khalgisht 



People to him said : that that 

 yiittei, da kabristan chiz-ar 

 direction took away in grave-yard what for 



gokh. Khattei : Yao ba akhir 

 dost (thou). He said : He at 

 Ha-yem jinib dram nieng-am. 

 Therefore here I have sat down. 



9. I naksh-khak-kiizg da i shahr ragdei dra tabibi pursam 



a picture-maker to a town went there doctoring beginning 



gokhtei. Tsum rwar-an sibas i khalg sam diar-an da 



made. Some days (abl.) after a person from his country (abl.) at that 



the end to this very (place) will come. 



* Latsar is the root or Imperative form of the verb latsar-an u to put." Combined 

 with another verb it seems merely an intensitive, if not altogether superfluous. It will 

 be observed that the Optative 3rd person is rendered by the simple Imperative. 



f According to the form given in the grammar this ought to be merely vitlc (see 

 3rd person singular of the Perfect Tense). But I let it stand as above as taken down 

 by me. It may be a mistake, through a false analogy on the part of the illiterate man 

 from whom I took down the phrase ; or it may indicate that the rule is not a hard and 

 fast one, 



v. 



