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Art. IX.—Observations on the Maráthí Language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2011

Stevenson
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The study of the vernacular languages of India is every day becoming a subject of more and more importance. The Government, yielding to the voice of reason, has decreed, that in every province the language of the people shall be the language of their rulers. Christians and philanthropists, in every district of the country, are preparing books and communicating the elements of learning to the native inhabitants, in their own dialects. Grammars and dictionaries of the principal vernacular tongues, exist either printed or in manuscript; and the speech of the common people instead of being despised as a jargon, is every where cultivated as a language.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 7 , Issue 13 , January 1843 , pp. 84 - 91
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1843

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page 87 note 1 Ṁany of these words, both in Telugu and Maráthí, have the pronounced like ts, but in this paper I prefer to write for it uniformly, ch.