এই পৃষ্ঠাটোৰ মুদ্ৰণ সংশোধন কৰা হোৱা নাই
INTRODUCTION I 15 retains some important peculiarities of the Western group to which Sindhi and Gujrati also belong. Nay, it retains also a few peculiarities of the language of the Zend-Avesta as we shall see in the next Section. I am in the circumstances tempted to class Assamese as a mixture of Eastern and Western groups. | The table of affinities may be shown thus :-- Indo-Aryan or Pre-Vedic. Primary Prakrt High Or Vedic = Low or Vulgar or Ancient Apabhramsa Low or vulgar Classical Sanskrit | Mg. Ap. Sr. Ap. Secondary Prakrt. or Pali Mh. Sr Prakrt Magadhi Prakrt Eastern Southern Western Northern Mh. Sr. Ap. Mg. Ap. Marathi Ghar. Kum. Nep. | LT Guj. Sind. Punj. West H. | East H. Beng. Uria | Assamese
