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Notes on Bashgali (Kafir) Language

1902

Days of the week and months of the year 65 SENTENCES—ENGLISII-BASHGALI 67-164 APPENDICES — L—List of the most important authors consulted Gn the suject of the language of the Klars and brief remarks thereon 165-184 1L—The Story of Nathan and David as in 2 Samuel :di 1 to 6 in Persian Pashto Badakhshi Khowiir and Bashgali Kafir. 185-187 III.—A list of 20 words in eighteen languages [...] Ttr5 following is an extract from pages 291 292 :— " I intend to make the Fort of Kullum (which is situated in the heart of Krifiristiot in the most impregnable part of the country owing to its strong postion) the military station for the main body of my army on the northern frontier. [...] If the language appears a simple one owing to the brevity of its grammar and sterile as to the number of words it may be remarked that as is the case in Chitrali the idioms are extremely numerous. [...] By the Agent * form is meant the idiomatic it version of the sentence by which the Verb is rendered passively:and agrees in * The Agent casis the case with na in Urdu when the post-position ko is not used with the Noun which is the object."—.11] SUBSTANTIVES —DECLENSION. [...] Trnmpp came to the conclusion that the Agent was used in the dialect-of which he wroto ; thzt in the singular it was not inflected (being identical with the Nominative) ; and that in the plural it took the termination X. Dr.

language linguistics
Pages
210
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.145328
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-ii Colonel Davidson view
Frontmatter
i-v Colonel Davidson view
System of Transliteration Adopted
vi-vi Colonel Davidson view
Preface
vii-xiii Colonel Davidson view
Grammar
1-66 Colonel Davidson view
Sentences. English-Bashgali
67-164 Colonel Davidson view
Appendix
165-195 Colonel Davidson view

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