Linguistic Survey Of India Vol V Part I Indo Aryan Family Eastern Group

EASTERN

TIPPEEA.

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Dhariya ama-re marchham; pitit tin chair

D'orv ama-re mdrs∈ pitit tin sdir

Haying-seized me they-beat; on-tbe-back three- foot

kilaichhain: tar par Umarar barit nichhain*gi.

kildiso'in: tar for Umordr bdrit nisoin-gi*

(tbey-also) strnck-with-fist: of-that alter Umar'a house-in

barit thake. Age
bdrit thake. Age

house-in lives. Formerly TTmar's of-tuter vith my intrigue was.

ban marchham;
baft m&nom;

blows they-itmek;

Kabull Umarar
Kdbuti Umordr

Kibuli Umar'i

Umarar hhanir lage arnar dusthi achhiL Kabul!
TTmordr Vonir loge dmdr dusthi a&iL Kabull

KiiLuli

dshd
coming

dhaii
dhori

for

abadhi amar lage dusthi nai, Kabul! tar barit dui tin mas
obodhi dmdr loge dusthi ndi. Kabull tar bdrit dm tin nidsh

with intrigue is-not Kiibuli his bouse-in two tliree months

since

my

thake.

thake.

lives.

.^ achhe. Tar bhanir bayas shola batsar haiba.
Tar Vonir bdyosh shulld bossor hoibd*

age sixteen years

Now-even-he-is.

Hii

sister's

will-be.

Biya hay nai. Ama-re dharle ami dohai dichhi. Keo ama-re uyastha
Jiiyd hoi ndi. Anid-re dhorVe ami duhdi disi. Keo amd-re uydtthd
Marriage is not. Me on-seizing I 'al&s' cried* Any-one me help

karchhain na.
Jccrsam nd.

did not.

The dialect of Tippera closely agrees with that of Dacca. Two specimens are
given,—one the parable of the Prodigal Son, and the other a statement made in court
by an accused person.
The following special peculiarities may be noted:—
The tendency to drop aspiration is stronger even than in Dacca, the aspiration of
even hard aspirated consonants being liable to be dropped. Thus k'diyd, having ealeu,
for Tchdiyd; mttd, having risen, for uthiyd; rdk'a for rdkha, keep; miVd for mithjja^
false. Sometimes even aspirated consonants are dropped altogether, and a y substituted,
Thus zayam ddyen, for zakham dekhen see the wounds. In the middle of a word, ch
like chh, is pronounced as a. At the commencement of a word the pronunciation of
ch is described as *a cross between $ and <?A.' In the transliteration, I represent it in
the first case by $, and in the second case by fa*
The elision of h is also carried further. Thus, as in Dacca, «is pronounced 7*. Thus
dshiy&t having come, becomes, first, dhiyd> and then &*iya; shuna, hear, becomes first
huna, and then 'una.
In the declension of nouns, the accusative-dative sometimes ends in ra> as in
pdt-rat to the field.
The following are examples of the plural, t8a&rdnira*r§9 to servants; nafintr&~rg9
to harlots; tsakrardr, of servants.
Special forms of pronouns, are dmdre, me, or to me; am&r or amrar, my; tnmdrt
thy; te or tdin (respectful) he; tdn-re3 to him (respectful) ; t&rar, of them; tard-re,
to them; htiydr or her, of this,
In the Auxiliary verbs, s(ohh) is sometimes disaspirated to * (oh). Thus we find
dsa, thou art; dsil, he was.
Examples of the Perfect, are karsi, or karti-o, I have done; karsat thou hast
done; barstS and Jcarse, he has done.
3?or the Future, we have-tayydm, I will go; foWaw, I will say.