A Grammar of the Sindhi LanguageAmerican Mission Press, 1849 - 171 pages |
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Page 44 - QUI fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem Seu ratio dederit seu fors objecerit ilia Contentus vivat, laudet diversa sequentes ? " O fortunati mercatores !" gravis annis Miles ait multo jam fractus membra labore.
Page 33 - ... sixty; sixty one; sixty two; sixty three; sixty four; sixty five; sixty six; sixty seven; sixty eight; sixty nine; seventy; seventy one; seventy two; seventy three; seventy four; seventy five; seventy six; seventy seven; seventy eight...
Page 9 - LL is sounded by placing the tip of the tongue against the lower teeth, and turning the thick part of it towards the roof of the mouth while emitting the breath with rapidity. It may be heard in the English word million ; but the II must be pronounced more quickly and strongly than in that.
Page 32 - Thirty five Thirty six Thirty seven Thirty eight Thirty nine Forty Forty one Forty two Forty three Forty four Forty five Forty six Forty seven Forty eight Forty nine Fifty...
Page 5 - only fit for clowns' and urged that 'the Sindhi will to the philologist prove a more interesting study than that of many of the other Indian dialects. The habit of affixing signs to words in lieu of the Pronouns and the Prepositions governing them, the regular form of the Passive Voice, the use of the Impersonals, the reduplicated Causal Verbs, and other points which the learner will mark as he proceeds, give to it beauties distinct from most Indian...
Page 4 - Davanagari letters it will he seen, I have added signs to complete the sounds used in Sindhi: but these are not many, nor is the distinction in pronunciation so great as to make these signs absolutely necessary.
Page 3 - The first I saw at once would not do. Its scanty use of vowels* made it quite impossible to delineate single words through it, so as to be at all inlelligible.
Page 5 - ... the Sindhi will to the philologist prove a more interesting study than that of many of the other Indian dialects. The habit of affixing signs to words in lieu of the Pronouns and the Prepositions governing them — the regular form of the Passive Voice — the use of Impersonale — the reduplicated Causal Verbs — and other points which the learner will mark as he proceeds, give to it.
Page 4 - Devenagari did, and of being also more known to Hindoos in Sindh: but I have preferred the...
Page 3 - I had as regards it the precedent of Wathen's Grammar, and also of some Sindhi books extant in that * See para : 2 of Grammar.