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Saihgal’s Hindustani Grammar

1930

This book has been officially recommended by the Board of Etaminers and we commend it to the notice of intending candidates for the Urdu Examinations.""Liddle's Simla Weekly "3rd May 1930 Logically and clearly arranged in convenient progressive stages both of script and enunciation the work should be invaluable to Officers and other Ranks for whom it is specially adapted and of the equal assi [...] The most striking feature of the book constst in the suitability and usefulness of sentences that. [...] To say the least it is dull to live in any country and limit one's conversation with the natives to such remarks as "hamare waste bhi" : and the loss to those who cannot talk fluently in the vernacular in a country so rich in history so attractive in its village life and with so much to teach the foreigner as India is very great. [...] The explanatory notes attached to the various excercises are particularly illuminating and the entire get up of the book has been greatly simplified and extended. [...] The vowels a i and u when pronounced long at the begining or middle of a word are marked over by the diacritical mark ( ' ). The letters e and o are always long As all final vowels in Urdu are long the use of the diacrtical mark over the final vowel is unnecessary.
language linguistics
Pages
244
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.145150
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xxvi M.C. Saihgal view
Part I Roman Urdu Writing
1-4 M.C. Saihgal view
Part II Containing Vocabularies and Simple Grammar With Examples and Exercises for Translation in Urdu and English
5-140 M.C. Saihgal view
Part III Containing Miscellaneous Rules of Grammar and Idioms of Everyday Use With Examples
141-192 M.C. Saihgal view
Part IV Vocabulary. English—Urdu
193-218 M.C. Saihgal view

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