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other changes of more or less frequent occurring.
The frequent dropping of h ( before all in the aspiratae of younger tadbhavas), however, especially agrees with modern Mārawāḍī and eastern Rājasthānī ( cp. L.S., p. 20 and p. 33 ). But the other phonological characteristics of modern Rājasthānī do not occur (such as the confusion of c, ch, and s), whereas e and ai, o and au are only occasionally interchanged.
The substitution of gy for jñ agrees with modern Gujarātī. Besides, there are, in our text, some special peculiarities, such as the substitution of dentals for cerebrals, aspiratae for mediae, and even tenues for mediae, and of b and bh for v.
(d) Vocabulary
In the vocabulary, it was impossible to compare modern Rajasthānī throughout, owing to the absence of materials available. With regard to the sense of the individual words, I have chiefly depended on dictionaries of modern Gujarātī, in many cases also of Hindi, Hindostānī, and Marāṭhī, all these languages in most cases offering homonymous, or nearly homonymous, equivalents. Some results could only be obtained by tracing certain words directly back to Samskṛta, Prākṛta, Persian, or Arabian. For information about the words marked, in the below glossary, by He., I am indebted to the old Gujarāti glossary of Professor Hertel, which has been at my disposal.
A comparison of our vocabulary with the 'Lists of Standard words' of Rajasthānī in the L.S., shows certain agreements with different groups of Rajasthānī dialects at the same time, as e.g., with regard to2 ēka, tīna, cyāra, pāca, dasa, pacāsa, hū, māro, tū, tū, thāro, hāta, mūdo, ākha, kāna, jībha, peta, loha, sono, rūpo, bāpa, mā, bhāi, minakha, lugai, bālaka, beṭī, pāṇī, ghara, ghoṛo, gãya, gadho, pākherū, jā, khā, ā, māra, mar, de, ūpara, kanāī, āgai, pailī, pachai, kuṇa, kāī, piṇa, paṇa, hāya, bhalo, uco. On the other hand, there are some agreements with single dialects only, as e.g., with Mārawāḍī in the case of the words doy, hețai, nāī, bahū, unā ( ro ), jīm, jala,
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