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INDEXICAL CONTENTS
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influence, pp. 62-63—List of Dravidian words in use in Bengali, pp. 63, 67—Some essential Grammatical peculiarities of the Dravidians noticeable in Bengali, p. 67—Origin of plural forming গুলি and রা, pp. 67, 68—Position of the negative particle না betrays Dravidian influence, pp. 68-69—দেশী words which cannot be traced either to any Sanskritic origin or to any other non-Aryan origin, pp. 69-74.

[pp. 55-74.


LECTURE VI

Bengali Phonology

Bengali vowels, pp. 75-76—Pronunciation of Bengali অ, pp. 75-76—Oriya অ, p. 76—The Vedic saṁvṛta অ, pp. 76-77—Vedic অ and আ carried at times a half nasal sound, pp. 77-78—The nasal of আ, pp. 78-79—Pronunciation of আ, p. 79—Words of one letter in Bengali pronounced long as in Tamil, p. 80—Change of আ to ই, pp. 80, 81—আ changed to এ, ও, pp. 80-82—Pronunciation of ই, ঈ, pp. 82-85 —উ, ঊ, p. 85—এ, ঐ, ও, ঔ, pp. 85-89— Rabindranath's rule regarding the pronunciation of এ accepted and expanded, p. 88—Visarjaniya, pp. 89-90—The nasal sound, p. 90—য, র, ল, ব, p. 93—র, ঋ, ল and ঌ, pp. 94-96—Bengali consonants, pp. 96-105—Phonetic value of Tamil consonants, pp. 96-97—Consonants of the Aryan speech, pp. 97-98—ক, খ, গ, ঘ, p. 97—চ, ছ, জ, ঝ, p. 98—Sibilants, pp. 99-100—হ and শ, pp. 100-102—Rules relating to the occurance of non-হসন্ত final, pp. 102.

[pp. 75-105.