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G. A. Grierson — Suffixes in the Kagmiri Language. [No. 4, 
The new classification of the North-Western languages is shown 
in the accompanying map. 
This North-Western Family, while widely differing from the Central 
Family, both in grammar and in vocabulary, has many peculiarities 
common to all the languages which compose it. One of the principal 
points of community is the use of pronominal suffixes, a practice 
altogether unknown to the languages of the Central Family but reap¬ 
pearing in those of the Eastern Family. 
I now proceed to consider the pronominal suffixes of Kacmiri, and, 
in doing so, shall compare them with those of the other languages of 
the North-Western Family. Speaking of Katpnlrl, Dr. Biihler says, 1 
‘ I believe that it has the greatest importance for the comparative 
grammar of the Indian Vernaculars, because, for instance, it so clearly 
reveals the manner in which the new cases of the declension have been 
formed from the old bases.’ This is certainly true of Ka^niri, but I 
think that it, and the languages of the North-Western Family generally, 
are of still more importance, as indicating the probable course of future 
development of the other Indo-Aryan Vernaculars. Sanskrit and 
Prakrit^ are synthetic languages. Most modern Indo-Aryan Verna- 
l J. R. A. S., Bo. Br., xii (1877, Ex. No. , 89. 
