MEMOIRS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



VOL. VII, No. ], pp. 1—101, 



THE (lEMrRi or BAEGISTA LANGUAGE, 



AN ACCOUNT OF A LITTLE-KNOWN ERANIAN DIALECT. 



BY 

 SIR GEORGE ABRAHAM GRIERSON, K.C.I.E., Ph.D., D.Litt. 



Honorary Felloiv of the Asiatic Society of Bengal ; Fellow of the British Academy ; Honorary Member of the Nagarl 



Pracharinl Habha, the American Oriental Society, The Societc Finno-Ougrienne , the International Phonetic 



Society, and the Bihar and Orissa Research Society ; Foreign Associate Member o/ the SociHe 



Aaiatique de Paris ; Corresponding Member of the Konigliche Qesellschaft der 



Wiasenschaften zu Gottingen ; Honorary Secretary of the 



Royal Asiatic Society. 



SIRWILUAMJONES 



MDCCXLVI -MDCCXCIV 



CALCUTTA: 



Printed at the Baptist Mission Press, and published by 

 The Asiatic Society, 1, Park Street. 



1918. 



