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F. Habn — A Primer of the Asur dukma. 
45. Postposition 5. 
maray re 
in front, before. 
taiyom re 
after, near. 
usul re 
on, above. 
latar re, ote re 
under, underneath. 
addcy title {urdon) 
with, by, along with. 
gati 
together, in company. 
mind 
inside. 
tala re 
among. 
46. Conjunctions and Interjections. 
gd, egd 
for. 
hind ge 
therefore. 
nihi rotate 
for this reason. 
nid mente 
for that. 
hente 
therefore. 
enan — miyan: 
when — then. 
ci — hd "1 , 
or — not. 
ci — koan J 
nlJio 
then, thereupon. 
hedy ord 
and. 
hed te 
and then, from then, there- 
upon. 
pd’en 
but. 
hdn 
even. 
o’e in addressing, oh ; ko is added in calling or shouting. Asur rd era 
re atom bold hoy do not enter the house of the Asur. juy ju ju ! Go, be 
off ! IcOy halloh ! 
Chapter X. The Asur dukma a Kolarian dialect. 
47. Similarity with Mundari and Santhdll. 
A glance at the preceding pages will convince the student of Kola- 
rian languages that in the Asur Dukma we have to deal with a Kolarian 
dialect pure and simple. 
The declination of the noun and pronoun, the conjugation of the 
verb, the dual number, the manner in which the verb is made to agree 
with the object, the similarity of the pronouns and numerals as well as 
of the postpositions and conjunctions, all these characterize the Asur 
Dukma as a Kolarian Dialect. 
Moreover if 1 were to prove this fact by a Vocabulary, I might 
simply take out four-fifths of the MuQdari or Santhali vocabulary. Yet 
