MEMOIRS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



VOL. VII, No. 1, pp. 1—101. 



THE ORMUEI or BAE&ISTA LANGUAGE, 



AN ACCOUNT OF A LITTLE-KNOWN ERANIAN DIALECT. 



BY 



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



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



Pracharin'i Sabha, the American, Oriental Society, The Societe Finno-Ougrienrie , the International Phonetic 



Society, and the Bihar and Orisaa Research Society ; Foreign Associate Member of the Society 



Asiatiqtie de Paris ; Corresponding Member of the K,6nigliche Oeaellachaft der 



Wissenschaften zu Oottingen ; Honorary Secretary of the 



Royal Asiatic Society. 



SIRrWILUAM'JONES 



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MAY 7 ,920 



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1918. 



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