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R. C. Temple — An Examination of the 
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served from tlie lists above given tliat they are practically the same! 
After considerable enquiry all I could elicit from the men was that the 
words were the same, and that the sense depended on the context! Lastly, 
under “ be silent, ” and apparently by mistake, Dr. Leitner has given 
“ baguwun (milk).” This word, as far as I could make out, is a synonym 
for “ sweet. ” 
I would also observe that the marked cerebralization of the vowel 
sounds makes it very hard to record the dialect as it falls on the ear. 
The same is observable in dialectic Panjabi, e. g., the first d in anna, gahna 
and the a in banhna. Dr. Leitner’s putz-kat and m;y putsakut, daughter, 
is a particularly difficult word to express, owing to the closeness of the 
vowels, which is such as one hears in the Pashto about Quetta and the 
Pishin. The final vowel in putze or piitsa, son, is the final German 
vanishing e, which is, and is not, heard. As regards this, I think there 
is no doubt, that in order to record a dialect such as this properly, one 
ought to come to it prepared with a carefully selected set of vowel equi¬ 
valents, or one will fail to give the living force of it. 
To pass on to sentences. I made a short list of such sentences as 
are usual when testing a dialect or new language, in order to find out the 
forms of the tenses, &c., and began to run down it, but the result was 
not satisfactory, and after seven of them had been gone through, the 
Naqqash were either tired or sulky, for they said it was “ a sin to talk 
anything but sidha bat (sfc)” and would give me no more words or 
sentences. I accidentally elicited that they do not tal!^ their peculiar 
dialect, but “ sidha bat ” to their women. Here are some of my 
sentences. 
Go quickly, loghar loghar ( ) sand. 
Go slowly, sechir sechir sand, lot lot gas. 
These are natural enough, but the next upsets all testing of tlie verb 
“ to go.” 
Go there, dahinishnish. 
Now for the verb “ to come” ; we have— 
Come quickly, jal jal wal. 
Come slowly, lot lot wal. 
And then again one is fairly taken aback by such a sentoTice as tlie 
following : 
Come here, ai sapan. 
There is only one more sentence and that is a doubtful one. 
Make this, kom kar (? for the Hindi kam kar). 
There is a difficulty always present in such attempts, viz., that the 
examinee will always try and palm off Kashmiri or Panjabi words on you 
as those of his own dialect: will insist, in fact, on talking “ sidha bat.” 
