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A Santali-English Dictionary

Book information

Publisher
The Santal Mission Press
Year
1899
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
33 MB (34135181 bytes)
Pages
\726
Library
twirpx
Time added
2017-08-07 07:01:42

Description

Pokhuria, Manbhum: The Santal Mission Press, 1899. — 708 p.Кэмпбел Э. Сантали-английский словарь.The Santali language is spoken by almost a million and a half of people, who are mainly found distributed over a strip of Bengal extending for about 350 miles from the Ganges to the Baitarni, bisected by the meridian of Bhagalpur, or 87° east longitude, and comprising the following districts: Bhagalpur, Monghyr, the Santal Pargannas, Birbhum, Bankura, Hazaribagh, Manbhum, Midnapur, Singhbhum, Mayurbhanj and Balasore.Santali belongs to the Munda or Kolarian family of languages, and has reached a much higher stage of development than any other language or dialect of the family to which it belongs. It is spoken with little variation in pronunciation or idiom over the greater part of the above-mentioned area.

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