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correct ; for ^rf WT is tbe present tense like Hindi ^3^ ^T. # Again very 
often consonants are spelled as compound which are in reality separated by 
a quiescent 37, as an 5 * instead ol (in Hindi 5n«r«TT ; also sometimes 
wrongly spelled sttwit). There is also a very inscientific principle followed in 
attaching the virdma to words really ending in consonants, as well as to words 
apparently terminating in a consonant, hut in reality in some quiescent 
vowel. But as regards the phenomena which I am now about to mention, 
there is every reason to believe (from general Gaurian analogy) that-the lan- 
guage of the translation is correct. 
As the first observation it may bo mentioned that the SansJcritio 
element of the Naipali is, in proportion to its proper Gaurian and PrdJcritie 
elements considerably less than in High Hindi. In this respect Naipali 
is on a level with the more cultivated low Hindi dialects. 
In the next place the PrdJcritie element of Naipdli includes besides 
that class of nouns which is the common PrdJcritie element of all Hindi- 
class Gaurian languages, two more classes of nouns. It has been observed 
that all masculine nouns terminating in 3*T or 3jT and derived through the 
Prd/crit are hi all Hindi-class Gaurian languages PrdJcritie. Thus Naipali 
has 
direct form ^TT, thine, oblique form 77TT 
Hindi 
V 
„ 
"it 
Panjabi 
» 
*ro 
Sindhi 
7J 
„ 
Gujarati 
9f 
tTTT „ 
In regard to Gujarati, the neuter nouns in ^3 had to be added to that 
class. They necessarily belong to it, as they are nothing else, but the neuter 
nouns corresponding to those masculine nouns in "%t. Similarly in regard 
to Low Hindi, the neuter nouns in vj (Braj Bliaska) and (Sura Dasas 
Sura Sagara) had to be added. In Naipali a like addition has to be made. 
It possesses probably neuter nouns in 3)t which form an oblique form in 37T. 
I have met with such a neuter, however, in a very few instances only ; and 
perhaps they are doubtful ;f though to judge from the fact that Naipali 
* There is also apparently great confusion as to the feminine gender. The femi- 
nine is made to terminate promiscuously in (like i'lVt. girl), or in •?; (like 
given ; though she teas is far not fgpr), or > u 3(T (like *75fT, dust, for Hindi or 
o- • ^ 
wf%), or in (liko fate). Now such variations are not probable in themselves, 
and the terminations x, %, are contrary to all Gaurian analogy. Or are they, per- 
haps, all misprints for x ? 
t E. g., St. Luko x. 18, fr<n3r ^tTT S7JI mz *3HrfT Tho 
neuter 'gTjg, is here used, because is construed with and is, therefore, 
accusative and not nominative to tho verb. It is what tho Marathi grammarians call 
tho Bliavi Prayoga, whoro the verb agrees neither with tho subject nor the object (seo 
Manual §. 115 , 3 .); as 77 ), >( || 
