Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. The Ormuri or Bargista Language

Honorary Fellow of the Asiatic Society of Bengal ; Fellow of the British Academy ; Honorary Member of the Nāgarī Prachārinī Sabha the American Oriental Society The Société FinnOugrienne the International Phonetic Society and the Bihār and Orissa Research Society ; Foreign Associate Member of the Société Asiatique de Paris; Corresponding Member of the Kōniglicbe Gesellschaft der Wissenschaft [...] 727 ff) gives a short vocablary and a few phrases of the language and remarks as follows :— ' The Barakis are included in the general term of Parsiwan or Tajak ; they are original inhabitants of Yemen whence they were brought by Sultan Mahmad of Ghazni ; they accompanied him in his invasion of India and were pre-emnently instrumental in the abstraction of the gates of Somnath. [...] The Barakis of Râjan in the province of Lohgad who speak Persian and the Barakis of Barak a city near the former who speak the language called Baraki ; Sultan Mahmad pleased with their services in India was determined to recompense them by giving them in perpetual grant any part of the country they chose ; they fixed upon the district of Kaniguram in the country of the Waziris where they set [...] In spite of the warning conveyed by Leech in the last paragraph of the passage quoted above I think that I have been able to show that Ormuri while it has in some respects developed on independent lines is in the main a close relation of the languages and dialects of Western trail. [...] It is a veritable fly in amber and though Ormurs may be neither rich nor rare we are still entitled to ' wonder how the devil they got there.' The first two notices of Ormuri and the Ormurs appeared as we have seen in the pages of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.