Re: kamrupi anibasi - not living or deceased

[Rajen Barua]

>ps: it is cool to have access to an academic library :)

Dear Saurav,

Is this available here in some University to borrow through Public Library in Houston?

Thanks

Rajen

>From: Saurav Pathak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>To: Rabin Deka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

>Subject: Re: kamrupi anibasi - not living or deceased

>Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 19:12:51 -0500

>

>rabin-da:

>

>it seems the /x/ sound is present in the kamrupi dialect, though in

>a dimished form. upendra goswami in his "a study of kamrupi: a

>dialect of assamese" gives these examples. and he uses the

>letter "x" to denote the sound. the book is based on his doctoral

>thesis, which was published in 1970.

>

>for example, here the /x/ sound is absent.

>

>aakhaa (hope) aaxaa

>aakaah (sky) aakaax

>bih (pain) bix

>rakh, rah (juice) rax

>

>there are other places where he uses the "x" letter to denote the

>sound in other words.

>

>xaneri (gold-smith) xonari

>xatra (seventeen) xotara

>xanaa (gold) xon

>xalaa (toothless) xolaa

>xaangur (yoking together) xaangor

>xundaar (beautiful) xundar

>xuinba zaau (go to hear) xuniboloi zao

>xiaar (root) xipaa

>xihaa (wick of a lamp) xa'lita

>xetli (bed) bisanaa

>

>saurav

>ps: it is cool to have access to an academic library :)

>

>Rabin Deka said on AssamNet:

>

>+

>+ DnYbad bafedL! Aañ bñr r’maN inym met 'Aa*KI' bananeqa Akhi hb laeg Aakhee nhy, en ik ky?

>+ "started off writing my name as 'Alpona', and may be - just may be, less people would have made the mistake" -- B’Dew

>+

>+ buijela! eten~k, Raxi nameqa býet raK`iC ba raKiC ba raiË buil Bul kirb paer nhyen bañ? raK`iC ba raKiC ba raiË Aidebaer AsmIyat ik ik AT^ ker bañ?

>+

>+ emar Baelf, DnYbad ...

>+

>+ eBagalI ibýr öeB¤Ca Aañ A¯©©irktaer,

>+

>+ ribn

>+

>

>--

>saurav

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