পৰিশিষ্ট ৫১৯ Sir E. A. Gait, writes : Park Hil. Ealing, W.5, 7.2.37 ৫ .......I will only say that it is evident that you have devoted immense labour to your task and have produced a very valuable work. I only wish such a book has been in existence when I went to Assam. | - was especially interested in your account of the affinities of the language and the influence on it of other forms of speech. I did no any reference to the characteristic change of the vowel of the negative to a ce with that of the verb c.g, na gal, na jam, ni dile, nu sunile etc., though no doubt it has been mentioned somewhere. Nor did I see reference to the perfect participle plea...... Mr. G. Geory, Secretary to Sir George Grierson writes : Camberley, Surrey, 27.4.1937 ..........He, however, asks me to tell you that Sir Edward Gait very kindly showed him a copy of the work some time ago, and though he was then also unable to study it as it deserves, he was weatly interested in it, and would congratulate you on its successful completion. Such a work has long been wanted.” Dr.]. H. Hutton, I.C.S. Professor, Cambridge writes : Dalau R.S.0. Radnor, Cambridge, 31.1.1937 ‘very many thanks for so kindly sending me your Assamese Grammar with its very interesting introduction. Most of the matter I am quite unqualified to criticise, but I am doubtful whether the hypothesis of an immigration via Tibet and the Himalayas (p.v.) is sound, The country is too difficult. It would be easier to postulate an extension eastward from the Punjab of the earliest wave of Indo-Aryan invaders, Another possible hypothesis would be that the population constituted a branch of the early Caucasian drift to the east which is found by many writers to have affected the population of the hills and islands of S.E, Asia, and that the language was adopted later as result of contact with the earliest of the uter Band of the speakers of Indo-European tongues. Such a hypothesis might account for the apparent longheadedness of the Assamese as contrasted with the roundheadedress of most of the Outer Band popular
