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G. A. Grierson —Notes on the Rangpur Dialect. 
a tank, becomes pushJcarnni, which is pronounced almost like 
pnshhanni. Vara. III. 50. 
A noticeable exception to the rule of separation is the preposition Sffi 
prati, which becomes ^fVr; see Vara. II. 7, and Hema-Chandra's sutra Rraty- 
ddau dah according to which the prahrit form is padi , and not pati. Also, 
as regards the elision of ^ r, see Vara. III. 3. Other compounds can only 
be settled by comparison and selection. 
Nouns. 
The following are the terminations, in the declension of nouns :— 
Singular. JPlural. 
Nominative 
— or ^ 
^T, 31^TT 
Objective 1 
Dative ) 
Instrumental 
^T<TT?T 
^T«TT?r 
\j 
Ablative 
Genitive 
yj 
Locative 
<T 
Thus a boy is declined—• 
Nom. or 
Obj. or 
Inst. 3TSi<ff ^TrTTiJ- 
Abl. or 
Gen. 
Loc. ■^T^'^vfT 
and similarly in the plural, 
&c. 
Adjectives. 
These call for no remarks. They are without gender or inflection, ex 
cept when used as substantives. 
Pronouns. 
As might be expected, their forms are many for each person. The 
most common are as follows: 
First person ^ if, ^ifi, ^Tfi, 
Second ditto J?:, if, gfi. 
Third ditto X this €iT, this or that. ?rf or If^or <TTf^ that or he. 
Belative ^t, or wx or iifej, who. 
Interrogative #T, or 4\X ° r ^TfH who ? 
