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G. A. Grierson 
Suffixes in the Kdgmirl Language. [No. 4, 
Last October, I received from the Rev. T. Bomford, a missionary- 
stationed at Multan, a grammar of the Western Panjabi ‘ dialect,’ which 
will be found to charge all our former ideas on this subject. We have 
hitherto known a dialect of Panjabi called Multani, which has been well 
illustrated by the late Mr. O’Brien’s Multani Vocabulary, This hitherto 
has been localized in the South of the Panjab, round Multan, in the 
districts bordering on Sindh, and, as it bore many close points of resem¬ 
blance to Sindlii, it was assumed, on the information then available, to 
be a sort o± border dialect, through which Sindhi merged into Panjabi. 
Mr. Bomford now shows that what has hitherto been called Multani, 
from the place where it was first observed, is not a border language 
between Sindhi and Panjabi at all. It is the language of the Panjab, 
west of, roughly speaking, the Jhelum, till it meets the Pashtu spoken, 
west of the Indus. Panjabi has hitherto been measured by the standard 
of Amritsar, a town some forty miles east of Lahore, midway between 
the Ravi and the Satlaj ; and our grammars, dictionaries, and literature 
have been based entirely on the language of the east of the Panjab. 
The grammars stated, and it was known as a general fact, that the 
language of the western Panjab differed from that of the east, but few 
