23.2614, Books: Specimens of Languages of India: Campbell

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Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:36:02
From: Joyce Reid [jreid at cambridge.org]
Subject: Specimens of Languages of India: Campbell

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Title: Specimens of Languages of India 
Subtitle: Including those of the Aboriginal Tribes of Bengal, the Central Provinces,
and the Eastern Frontier

Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org

Author: George Campbell

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108046084 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 19.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108046084 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 29.99

Abstract:

This 1874 work by Sir George Campbell, a British government official whose 
Scheme for the Government of India is also reissued in this series, presents a 
survey of the diverse languages of India, using material obtained usually by 
British army officers trained by Campbell to collect 'specimens' in the course of 
their normal work. The tabular material is presented with the English words or 
phrases in one column and their equivalent in the Indian language under 
discussion in another: most of the languages are represented by more than one 
dialect, such as the 'Punjabee of Lahore' and the 'Punjabee of Mooltan'. In his 
introduction to the work, Campbell emphasises that the survey is not scientific, 
and his main conclusion is that in addition to the broad division of Aryan and 
Dravidian language types, India contains a huge number of 'aboriginal' 
languages which will require further study. 

Introduction; 1. Aryan languages of Bengal, Hindustan, and the Bombay 
territories; 2. Languages of the Punjab and neighbouring countries; 3. Dravidian 
languages of Southern and Central India; 4. Dialects of Behar; 5. Aboriginal 
languages of Western Bengal (Kolarian type); 6. Further aboriginal languages of 
Western Bengal (chiefly Dravidian type); 7. Aboriginal languages of the Central 
Provinces (Kolarian and Dravidian); 8. Further aboriginal languages of the 
Central Provinces (Dravidian, chiefly Gond); 9. Thibetan and Bhootea 
languages: 10. Cooch Behar, Darjeeling (Sikhim), and Nepalese languages; 11. 
Assam languages; 12. Languages of the Tipperah, Chittagong, and Cachar 
frontier; 13. Further languages from Tipperah and Cachar; 14. Languages of hills 
surrounding Assam and Cachar; 15. Languages of the North-East of Assam; 16. 
Dialects of Naga tribes of the Seebsaugor frontier; 17. Languages of the Khasi 
and Jynteah Hills; 18. Languages of Burmah compared with others. 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Typology

Language Family(ies): Dravidian
                      Indo-Aryan 

Written In: English  (eng)

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