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6. DrTolo Brwap BNGALI AND AsA • This question was very ably discussed by capable judges and they all came to the conclusion that both these languages Assamese and Bengali, are as distinct from each other a৪ two coordinate languages belonging to the same stock can be. Comparative philology has taught us that the mutual intelligibility is the true test for judging the similarity of two languages, If an Assamese peasant from an interior village is allowed to exchange thoughts with a Bengal peasant of similar description both unaided by any gestures or signs, they will scarcely be able to make one understand the other. The Assamese language widely differs from Bengali in its inflections, idioms, phrases and proverbs, Mr. J. D, Anderson of the Indian Civil Service had truly observed in an article published in the Calcetta Revies for July, 1886,— Assamese differs materially from Bengali in grammatical forms : its plural is formed in a different manner from the Bengali plural; the feminine gender is shown in a different way; there is much difference in the conjugation of verbs, specially in the present and the future tenses; it differs also in idioms, in syntax and collocation of words. There is also an impor- tant difference in its vocabulary; it retains a considerable । Mr BadmatBen's words in this connection may be quoted, “That Agame in descended directly from fari no longer dmit of doub, The ulain tat the land was bra patai of Bengali wa so dowdid of foundation is it we a none only conidared und tudiod than i was seen to be entirely intenabla, Bengali and Aname are both descendants of Banskrit a rench and Italian, ate of Eatineness.In ructure of Banesses, insinfection, in pronunciatlan, the languages marked iesences. In ue of the negative as prefixinstead of an as a in Bengali, is the formation of its plural and it taminine, in the conjugations of its orba cially the present and the future tense, in 1 pronunciation of certain soud, nd ven in the alphabeta, in f idion and in its vocabulares there are such important dietanga that only the theory of scoramon rigrin can word an adequat explanatics. Asame, etabling Bangali it does through its songmon parentage, resembleut more the languags এ Orien and Upar Indiv"s, a, b,