A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India: On sounds

accent alphabets ancient anuswâra Arabic Aryan aspirate becomes Bengali Bengali and Oriya Brahmans Buddhism causal century cerebral Chand character class of words common compound connexion consonant corruption dental derived Desaja Devanagari dialects Dravidian early Tadbhavas elided elision English examples exhibit existence express fact former frequently guages Gujarati India Indian languages inflectional influence initial instances Kutila labial Latin lengthening letter lingual literature long vowel Maharashtri Marathi means merely modern languages nasal natural nexus non-Aryan nouns occurs organic origin Orissa Oriya oxytone palatal Pali Pandits Panjabi peculiarities perhaps Persian poems postpositions Prakrit form preceding present probably pronounced pronunciation pure rejection retained Romance languages root rule Sanskrit words Sauraseni semivowels seven languages short vowel shortened sibilants Sindhi single consonant softened sound speech spoken syllable Tadbhavas Tatsama tendency termination Urdu Vararuchi verb vulgar writing written