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A Vocabulary of the Korwa language;—collected by 
W. Crooke, B. A., C. S. 
The following vocabulary of the language spoken by the Korwas, 
of whom there are a few families in the jungles of the southern part 
of Mirzapur, may be of interest in connection with Mr. Driver’s paper 
in the 2nd number of the Society’s Journal, Part I, for 1891. I have 
compared the list casually with Mr. Hislop’s vocabulary of what he 
calls the Kuri and Muasi dialect, and some words are certainly iden¬ 
tical : but I leave the analysis of the language to some one skilled in 
the Gondi and Kolarian dialects. The glossary was taken down care¬ 
fully from a Korwa, who could speak Hindi intelligibly as well as his 
own language :— 
Mother, 
ingd. 
Father, 
apd. 
Son, 
hopunu. 
Daughter, 
liori hopunu. 
Woman, 
ereat. 
Mother-in-law, 
henhartu. 
Father-in-law, 
honhartu. 
Wife’s brother, 
sardng. 
Paternal uncle, 
kdkd , (Hindi). 
Paternal aunt, 
kdki , (do.) 
Married woman, 
bydh M ivaba. 
Paternal grandfather, 
dddd , (do.) 
Maternal uncle, 
mama , (do.) 
Maternal aunt, 
mdmi , (do.) 
Boiled rice, 
leti. 
Salt, 
bulung. 
Paddy, 
horu. 
Husked rice, 
kudi. 
Wheat flour, 
kanilcu , (Skt. kaniJca). 
Wheat, 
ralcti , (Skt. rakta — r< 
Gram, 
butu, (Hind. bunt). 
Fire, 
sangel, (sing at , Kuri). 
Water, 
dd , (da, Kuri). 
Clothes, 
cliird, (Skt. clnra). 
A cot, 
purkum. 
House, 
ora, (ura, Kuri), 
Thatch, 
saramtu. 
Door, 
dudrtu, (Skt. dvdra). 
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