290 Trevor Bomford —Language spoken in the Western Punjab. [No. 4, 
Plough notes on the Grammar of the Language spoken in the 
Western Pahjab. — By the Rev. Trevor Bomford, m.a., c.m.s., Multan. 
These notes have been put together from the following sources :— 
1. “ Glossary of the Multan language ” and proverbs of that lan¬ 
guage by the late E. O’Brien, Esq., for many years Deputy Commis¬ 
sioner in the Muzaffargarh and Multan districts. 
2. Notes on the grammar of the Multanl language in MS., by 
the same, given by him to me when he left Multan in 1885. 
3. “ A grammar of the Multan language,” by the late Sir R. F. 
Burton. 
This is advertised at the end of Edwardes’ “ Year on the Panjab 
Frontier,” published in 1850; but Mr. O’Brien told me he had never 
seen it. All efforts I ever made to find it were failures, till at last 
I wrote to Sir R. F. Burton to ask him where I could get a copy. In 
reply he sent me two post cards (written about a week before his death). 
In the first of these he said that he had never completed the book but 
that his rough notes were published in the Transactions of the Bombay 
Asiatic Society; and in the second he said that he had studied the 
language because he was convinced that the European gypsies originally 
came from the South of the Panjab, and he added that his study of the 
language had confirmed him in this idea. 
4. Translation of the New Testament into the Multan language, by 
the Serampore Missionaries, 1819. 
5. Various translations into ‘ Dera-wal,’ i. e. the language spoken 
near Dera GhazI Khan, by Dr. Jukes, Church Missionary Society. 
6. Various stories and proverbs. 
7. Tisdall’s ‘ Simplified Panjabi Grammar.’ 
The language is known by various names. 
1. Multanl. This is not suitable because it is spoken in many places 
far removed from Multan : 
near Gurglw, for instance, in the Dehli district, I have been in¬ 
formed that it is spoken by one tribe ; 
