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Notes on Dardic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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In drawing attention to some of the archaic features of Khowar (Report on a Linguistic Mission to Afghanistan, p.71), Dr. Morgenstierne says: “The preservation of t as r … is a very archaic feature, with parallels only, to some extent, in Shina, some Kohistani dialects and Romany.”

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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1927

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References

page 533 note 1 The Shina words quoted are taken from Dr. Grahame Bailey's Shina Grammar and Lt.-Col. Lorimer's articles in JRAS. and Bulletin S.O.S.

page 535 note 1 Suggested to me by Mr. P. S. Noble of St. John's College, Cambridge.

page 537 note 1 As also in Khowar, according to a communication from Dr. Morgenstierne.