Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

The fourth and concluding part willroo Annals the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute deal with the position of Koiikapi in IndAryan and the various historical and other details available from different sources for a proper evaluation of the development of Konkani and its breaing up into a number of dialects. [...] As the subject of the growth and development of these dialects is dealt with here for the first time with some dE gree of scientific accuracy by the application of the canons of modern linguistics it will be of some use to the serious student of General as well as Indo-Aryan Linguistics in that Konkani is pre-eminently fit to illustrate the case of a non-literary language which has kept its uniqu [...] It will be clear from the above that in Konkani the normal change i t7 a. The explanation of the third treatment ( except in the case of s. gs. [...] Besides the changes in the above-mentioned vowels MI-A had affected primarily a change in the conjunct consonants through the general principle of assimilation and reduced them to double consonants and in the case of original single intervocalic consonants reduced them ( from unvoiced to voiced and from voiced to spirant and zero ) according to the development of the particular dialect concern [...] At the time of the literary ApabhrarnSa stage the final o of the nom.