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Siali Push Kafirs, N. and N.W. of Kafiristan, all speak varieties of one 
language, of which the Bashgali may be taken as a type. 
Some of the Kafir dialects, (those specified by Sir G. Robertson,) show 
sporadic instances of agreement with the Iranian languages, but the 
general phonetic structure of most of them is Indian. Their grammatical 
structure, however, varies from any Indian language. Seven pages are 
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The specimen translation of the story of the Prodigal Son seems to 
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About 23 per cent, of the words are identical with, and 17 per cent, 
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