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The Languages of the Northern Himalayas, being Studies in the Grammar of Twenty-six Himalayan Dialects. By the RevT. Grahame Bailey, B.D., M.A., M.R.A.S. Asiatic Society Monographs, vol. xii. London, 1908.

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The Languages of the Northern Himalayas, being Studies in the Grammar of Twenty-six Himalayan Dialects. By the RevT. Grahame Bailey, B.D., M.A., M.R.A.S. Asiatic Society Monographs, vol. xii. London, 1908.

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page 185 note 1 It is a question whether we should not rather say that the people of Rājputānā speak a form of Gujurī, rather than that the Gujurs speak a form of Rājasthānī, but that is a question too large for discussion here.

page 186 note 1 To be strictly accurate, we should except Mr. O'Brien's short sketches of and Gādī, which have been edited by Mr. Bailey, but these, though excellent, form only a small portion of the whole.

page 186 note 2 By far the fullest and best account of the Khaśas is that contained in chapter iv of vol. ii of Atkinson's, E. T.Gazetteer of the Himalayan Districts of the North-Western Provinces of India (Allahabad, 1884),Google Scholar an admirable work too little known to European students.

page 187 note 1 I have noted its existence in Gaṛhwālī and Kumaunī.

page 188 note 1 Mr. Bailey calls this an oblique genitive, but it is clearly a dative.

page 188 note 2 It is hardly necessary to repeat that nearly all Indo-Aryan dative terminations are really locatives of the corresponding genitive terminations, just as the Sanskrit kṛtē is the locative of kṛtas.

page 188 note 3 Bashgalī Kāfir, one of the Piśāca languages, forms its future with the same suffix.

page 189 note 1 I cannot satisfy myself that the usually accepted derivation of this - from the Sanskrit -gatas is correct.