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Vol. XXV, 2002 SARASVATIKANTHABHARAN...
117 a grammar of a particular language of a given period. Pāņini and his successors treat the language in general while dealing with Sanskrit. They think that Sanskrit is a unique and perfect language and that all the other languages are a corruption. There are, therefore, no historical or comparative considerations in them), Bulletin d'études indiennes, No 1,
Paris, 1983, p. 81, para 1. 30. Scharfe, op. cit., p. 115, para 2. The title of the Wilkins grammatical
work is 'A Grammar of the Sanskrita Language' (1808) (Reprint Ajay Book Service, 704 Chandani Mahal, Darya Ganj, New Delhi, First Indian
Edition, 1983). 31. Die Sprache der Jakuten (A. Th. Von Middendorff, Reise in den äussersten
Norden und Osten Siberiens, Bd.III, St. Petersburg, Kais. Ak. D. Wissen., 1851) - Emeneau, op. cit., p. 150, fn. 18. It was the first scientific grammar of the hitherto not at all studied Yakut language. Böhtlingk, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, initiated the civilian written form of the Yakut language. While doing research on Yakut language, he devised the civilian Yakut alphabet for the first time, against the parallel and already existing missionary alphabet. The publications of religious literature by the missionaries in Yakut language from 1819 onwards were not accessible to the Yakut people, as the masses were illiterate. The school education started only in the last few decades of the 19th century (p. 23 in the Ref. mentioned below). In a letter to Böhtlingk, the Yakut born Russian A Y Uvarovskiy (1800-c. 1860) teacher and great inspiration to the former regarding research on the Yakut language, warmly greeted his initiation of the creation of written Yakut language : "Iz-za otsutstviya pis'mennosti yakutskiy yazik schitaetsya mertvim yazikom. Nedaleko to vremya, kogda Vi ozhivite ego. Nedaleko to vremya, kogda Vi polucite pokhvali ot visokoobrazovannikh lyudey I beskonecnuyu blagodarnoct' ot yakutskogo naroda. Gryaduschee pokolenie yakutov polnoct'yu ispolzuet Vase tvorenie I visoko podnimet Vase imya... Eto budet vozdayaniye ot nikh, eto budet nagrada dlya Vas.” (Due to the absence of the written form, the Yakut languge is considered to be a dead language. The time is not far away, when you will revive it. The time is not far away, when you will receive appreciation from highly educated people and the endless thanks and gratitude from the Yakut people. The coming generation of Yakut will fully utilize your work and raise your name high.... It will be a
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