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

BENGALI

Knitu a mod kara 0 khusbi hawa uchit hoyeciie, karan tomar ei bhai
J?/(/ rejoicing doing and happy lehig proper is, because thy this brother
more glllo, bacheche; liariye giilo, pawa-giyeche.

Jiihiff went, hns-survived ; lost went, h<fs-been~fotind.

Tlie next specimen also comes from Jessore. It i*s a statement made In Court br an
accused person, recorded in Ills own language. We may note thai in the ^rord tha'd,
remain, we have an Instance of the elision of a medial k, which we shall subsequently
Sec fs common In Soutli-East Bengal _ Note, also, the change of r to n, in the word
, of the night,