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Indian Linguistics - A Quarterly Bulletin of the Linguistic Society of India

1939

Whatever may be the origin of the ancient national Indian system writing the Brihmi (and a native prAryan origin in the script of Mohen-jo-Daro and Harappa seems to be the most likely affiliation of the Brihmi) it is quite certain that it was first applied to some vernacular before the literature in Vedic and Sanskrit was written in it. [...] The establishment of the Turks and other foreign Mohammadans as the ruling power in Northern India in the 13th century brought in a new foreign script the Arabic or Perso-Arabic which in the course of centuries was adopted for some Indian speeches and which consquently became a serious rival of the national Indian script even practically ousting it from certain language-SANSKRIT IN PERSO-ARA [...] A revival of Hindu nationalism among the Hindus of Northern India who had lost a living touch with the main-spring of Hindu culture vi z. the Sanskrit language was attempted through the Hindi or Sanskritised form of Hindustani and the influential society which was founded at Benares to revive the study and spread of Sanskritised Hindustani (Hindi) and of the earlier literature in the North In [...] The Arya Saraij became an enthusiastic supporter of the Sabha in this matter in the Panjab and the United Provinces and the way in which the Arya Sal* had to carry on its religious propaganda showed that there was a great need for the Sabhi. [...] The nasalisation of long vowels in contact with a nasal n or m and the absence of rigid consistency in differentiating the long quantity from the short particularly in the case of i and u are others.
language linguistics
Pages
60
Published in
Pakistan
SARF Document ID
sarf.120075
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Sanskrit in Perso-Arabic Script: A Side-Light on the Medieval Pronunciation of Sanskrit in Kashmir and Northern India
131-166 Suniti Chatterji view
Brief Notes on “Nirali Urdu” of Delhi
167-179 M. Hamidullah view
The Non-Finite Verb and Periphrasis of Tenses and Moods in Middle Indo-Aryan
180-186 Sukumar Sen view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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