This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ...of the plains, on one hand, and of the hills, on the other; and, what is still more singular is, the broad distinction between the Bodo and Dhimal tongues as compared with one another, seeing that these people have lived, for several generations, if not actually mixed, (for their villages are separate nor do they ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ...of the plains, on one hand, and of the hills, on the other; and, what is still more singular is, the broad distinction between the Bodo and Dhimal tongues as compared with one another, seeing that these people have lived, for several generations, if not actually mixed, (for their villages are separate nor do they intermarry, ) yet in the closest apposition and intercourse. That the Kocch were originally an affiliated race, very closely connected with the Bodo and entirely distinct from the Hindoos, (Arian immigrant population using the Prakrits, ) I have no hesitation in saying. But, since the beginning of the 16th century of our aera, the Kocch have very generally abandoned their own, in favour of the Hindoo (and Moslem), speech and customs, though there be still a small section called Pani or Babu Kocch, retaining them. I failed to obtain access to the Pani Kocch so that my Kocch Vocabulary exhibits little more than a mass of corrupted Prakrits. There are, however, some primitive vocables and the vocabulary, such as it is, has been taken, in order to preserve a living sample (soon to disappear) of that process whereby the Arian and exotic, are rapidly absorbing the Tamulian and indigenous tongues of India--tongues (the latter) which, if we make a general inference from the state of things in the hilly and jungly districts, wherein alone they are now found, must have been prodigiously numerous, when they prevailed over the whole face of the land--unless, indeed, the dispersion and segregation in holes and? corners of the aboriginal population have given rise to that Babel of tongues which we now find. In the sub-Himalayas between the Kali and the Tishta rivers, I know of the following aboriginal tongues and dialects: the Rongbo or Cisnivean, Bhotia, the Maga.
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