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2 190 PUSHTOO ULNQUAGE.
3 in^.aod, comaeguently, bendet iht Kiag^ eall^gea»> tbeamii ao'aite*
4 bluimMDl m erexy village for MiiiBtirinii^.ahidwiiafc' lli^'ooiiwqiianM
5 tty.tbafc'ibe mmuIcj is om«im ipith ]iatf4»ig|it>M9o1]«hi» iNio lal&er
6 iiiif»ede'dhin pawBiateililte progress of real leamo^ *
7 B^fete aaying moite abovt the learning of the A^haone, it wQl be
8 wdl to give some account of their language, whieht *b I haveialfMd;^
9 mentioiied, k ddled Pushtoo. Its origin it > not easily disco wefed>
10 A iaiBge portion of the word» that compose it, spring from .aoma
11 unknown * root, and in thia portion ere included moat of those wndi
12 which, from the early necessity for designating the objects tbeyw
13 presmit, must have formed parts of the original language of the peo*
14 plo ; yet some of this very class belong to the Zpnd and Pehle%*ec j
15 such at» the terms for father and mother, sister and brother. This
16 seems also to be tlie c^ise wiih tiie numerals; thon^b the Zenti and
17 Pehlevee numerals bear so strong a resemblance to tiie Shanscrit ones,
18 that it is difficult to distinguish them. Most of the verbs, and manv
19 of the particles agani Ijclong to the unknown root. Tiie words can-'
20 nected with religion, go\ eruinent, and science, are mostly introduced
21 from the Arabic through the Persian. " ■ '
22 • - Of two hundred and eighteen hundred words which I compared f
23 mih the corresponding ones in j^rsiaD, Zend, Fdilevee, Shanscrit;
24 Hiadoatanneey Aiiibi<^ AzBMniaii, Geoiigiaa, Hebiew, and Quddaic^
25 I fimBdone hnndiedandten that ooold not be nAnedtomj of
26 *Ithi»bbsU*BU7«r dMMWoiAiuglilliBtBload to •laOnmrnM, irdl%efl%
27 nfted by an Oriental tidtahr. I bMtt OfUnei, la llw IMXt wHlt^ ik^fufom ihtf Imw
28 undergone m my liands.
29 f The comparibuu wai» made iii tlie ibtiowing manner : — 1 drew up a Pushtoo vocabu-
30 knr, which I believe
31 one compiled by Mr. Irvine : similar vocabulnrie* of the Zend and Pehlevee languages
32 ijTtfe made for me by a friend to vhoae kimlnew I have otion bc-vn indebted. They were
33 ' liilEm from two learned Pluraeea, and oompared with Auqueiil du Perron's lists. The
34 imw frbnd pfocufed the Georgian, Armenian, Hebrew, mi Gbaldee vocabolanet. Iff
35 own MqDMntanoe with Paraian and Hindortanee wis cnfidoit, widi th« ha^ of AdioQ-
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