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T JOURNAL OF TF ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY OF ভAT BRITAN AND IRELAND | Fourth Quarter: October, 1937 It is perfor a matter for surprise that the Assamese language should have had to wait so on for a full and comprehensive grammar alhough other languages in India have been so fully dealt with by com rent schar.••••••••••••••••• ........Mr. Medhis work could hardly be improved , M us w) upon; it has been very fully documented throughout, and from the well reasoned discussions it contains shows the immense amount of industry and care which have been exercised in its preparation, Mr. Medhi is to be heartly conWatulated on the esult of what must have been many years abour..................There are four introductions covering Cxxiv pages of print, all in English. These are most interesting and deserve care ful study................Much more could be written n the subject of pronun ciation, and indeed generally rearding this most interesting and valuable work, but unfortunately space does not permit. | In conclusion, may I commend this grammar to all students of the Assamese language and philologists and ethnologists generally. . R. Gurdon JOURNAL OF THE ASSAM RESEARCH SOCIETY October, 1936, Vol. IV. No. 3 This is a monumental work which does great credit to the learned author, The Introduction, which deals exhaustively with the origin of the Assamese language, is a masterly production although it contains statements and theories which may not be accepted by all. According to the author, though the Assamese language may be classed as a member of the Magadhi group. its relationship with the western group of Aryan languages such as Guzerati, Sindhi, Punjabi and western Hindi is close while it is also, to some extent, allied to the languages of Dardic origin. It would seem, therefore, that the author's conclusions do not necessarily postulate the intrusion of a non-Vedic horde of Aryans into India prior to the advent of the Vedic Aryans. On the other hand, the invasion by tribes of Aryan speaking round-headed Alpines from the table-land of Iran, long before the entry of the Vedic Aryans, will not only support the conclusions of the author but will also be coroborated by the recent findings of the Anthropologists. The author’s supposition that Pisaci or Paisaci was the Aryan lan- guage as spoken by the non-Aryans of India with an admixture of their own speech is not correct, The Paisaci languages are even now spoken