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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal March 1849

1849

Proceeding.now to the examination of the languages spoken in Asarn and by the tribes bordering on the valley the one that naturally claims precedence is the ASAMESE. [...] It is the language usually spoken by the entire population of the vallpr and in most cases is the only medium of intercoure used between ;Om and tie people of the hills. [...] This might serve to show that long previous to the invasion of the Shan coquerors or the inroads of the bill tribes the valley was inhabited by a race intimately connected with Bengal or Berar and this cojecture would seem to be confirmed by the traditions of the old kindom of Kamroop and several antique Hindu remains in the most remote parts of the valley which have but recently been [...] And the more clearly to 2 11 2l 86 Languages of the rarious tribes inhabiting the IMARCII exhibit the analogy between the two dialects those secondary forms alluded to and which have thrown considerable weight on the result of the comparison have been introduced into the Bengali column. [...] The powers of the letters are also the same except the substitution of S in Asamese for the Bengali Ch and a guttural H for the Bengali S and Sh.
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Pages
107
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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Notes on the Languages spoken by the various Tribes Inhabiting the Valley of Assam and its Mountain Confines. By William Robinson. Inspector of Government Schools in Assam
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A Brief Note on Indians Ethnology by B.H. Hodgson Esq.
238-246 The Secretaries view
On an Inscription from Keddah by Lient.-Col. Low
i-249 The Secretaries view
Note on Iron Tension Bridges by the Rev. J. H. Pratt
249-252 The Secretaries view
A Seventeenth Memoir on the Law of Storms in India Being Storms of the China Seas from 1842 to 1847 and some of the Northern Pacific Ocean from 1797. By Henry Piddinggton President of Marine Courts of Enquiry Calcutta
252-282 The Secretaries view
Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for March 1849
283-285 The Secretaries view
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