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proportion of Prakritio words, for whica, Bengali has substi- tuted Bengali words. There is a further difference of pronunciation which more than anything else tends to make interchange of ideas difficult. In this connection we can do nothing better than quote some of the best authorities on the subject. Mr. Needham cust, the renowned linguist and ethnographist, in his book A Sketch of the Modern Laaguage of the East Indea has observed, The grammar of the Assamese language is quite different from that of Bengali, as far apart as Italian and French are from each other." In another place of the same book he has stated,

  • The Assamese language existed in its present form for

centuries and the pronunciation corresponds with the Hindi language--the field whence came the emigration of its colonists, than with that of Bengali, who had no access to the valley until after the Muhammadan invasion.”। Prom the resemblance of certain words the superficial observer runs at once to the conclusion that both the languages are one and the same, that Assamese is a mere patois of Bengali. Such observers forget that every language is at liberty to admit into it any number of words from different languages, There is scarcely & language on this earth which has not adopted some words from the neighbour- ing tribes or foreign nations, but few have adopted the grammar of a foreign dialect, In English dictionaries the number of Latin words would perhaps far exceed the number of Saxot words, and an English sentence may contain a large proportion of Latin words, and still it may be the sentence is not a Latin one. Professor Huxley is credited with the asser- tion that the primrose is a corolliforal dicotyledenous exogen with a monopetalous corolla and a central placenta."। Now |। Dr. arioron given a similar assage &nglish in ructure but Latinipad in vocabulary, of course in different context in vol. 1, Part I of his "ndaguistics Bure of India, pa n a certain wir had to use, And the junior ilis no ot thand to hi ga t, 1 me tho part of the substants that fallsta o na . . . . . . .