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passive origin of the first two persons has been lost. The Bhojpuri future is, therefore, as follows:Singular.
Plural. 1. Már-ab-3, I shall strike
Már-ab 2. Mar-ab-€
Már-ab-ah 8. Márine
Marihen In the first two persons, the terminations are enclitic pronouns meaning 'by me,' by thee, and so on. Eastern Hindi goes still further in the same direction. The Awadht dialect closely agrees with Bhojpuri. Its future is :Singalar.
Plural. 1. Már-46-%, I shall strike
Már-ab 2. Már ab-es
Mar-26-8 3. Marihai
Marihai As, however, we go west, we find in the Awadhf-speaking district of Unao the following: - Singalar,
Plural. 1. Marihaw, I shall strike
Márihai 2. Márihai
Marihau 8. Márihai.
Marihai This is a pare ih-fature, and is identical with the one given above for Braj Bákhâ. The Bagheli dialect, according to Dr. Kellogg, takes a mean position between these two extremes. It may be noted that the first person singalar, máravye more really approaches the Prakrit form máriavvam than in any other dialect. Singular.
Plaral. 1. Már-avy.eft, I shall strike Már-a6 2. Mar-1b-es or marines 3. Mart
Márihai It should be remarked, however, that the specimens collected for this survey from the Bagheli-speaking area only show the ih-future, conjugated exactly as in Unao. The Chhattisgarhi future shows another mixture of these two forms. It is as follows: - Singular.
Plural. 1. Marihan, I shall strike
Már-ab or merihan 2. Mar-ab-6
Marihau 3. Marihai
Marihai We thus see that, as in the Past Tense, the Future Tense of Eastern Hindi occupies an intermediate position between that of the Magadhi languages of the East, and that of the Saurasent languages of the West.
· General Conclusion. We are hence entitled to state that the Eastern Hindi language, or, in other words, the East-Central group of Indo-Aryan vernaculars, agrees generally in regard to its noaps and pronouns with the Magadhi or Eastern Group of vernaculars, but, in regard to the verb, occupies a position intermediate between that group and the Saurasent group, whose habitat is immediately to its west. It is the modern representative of the ancient Ardha-Magadhi Prakrit.
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