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ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



A Grammar of the Cashmeeree Language. By Major R. Leech, C. B. 

 1st Assistant Governor General's Agent, N. W. F. 



The following few pages, drawn up with the assistance of an educat- 

 ed Mussulman of Loodiana, who has not re-visited his country for a 

 quarter of century, are intended to facilitate the acquisition of a collo- 

 quial knowledge of the Cashmeeree language, and although they do not 

 deserve the name of a Grammar so much as the publication by Dr. W. 

 Carey in 1812, entitled a Grammar of the Punjabee Language, yet the 

 student will not have to get by heart such laboriously manufactured 

 tenses of verbs as that at page 85, of the above work. 



Ex. — " Let him be obliged to be caused to be made." Much labor 

 and time would be saved, and every ordinary purpose answered, if in 

 order to assist the acquirement of a colloquial knowledge of similar 

 minor dialects, that scarcely deserve the name of a language, a Vo- 

 cabulary only of words, and a collection of sentences actually heard 

 spoken, were made in the Roman character. 



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