O'Priyankoo:
>Anyway coming back to the question of
"acceptability" and "correctness", the
>school of Linguistics that I belong to says that whatever way a
Linguistic >community speaks should be held as "correct"
(of course within quotes).
Tumi kothaabwr baarukoie bujisa 'pai. From a language challenged
uzonial, I agree with your observation above, which is in line with
most, if not all people who study languages seriously seem to agree
on.
Pwn prothome moi jetiya Guwahatile aahisilw, naamonial-gilaar
kotha-baarta bwr bor okhoja-okhoja laagisile. Pise so-maahote moi
nijei 'dh----i':-) kobole laagi-golw. Goromor bondhot ghorole jaawnte
moi ebaar kibaa eta kothat koisilw 'moi dekha nepaalw'( instead of
'moi nedekhilw'). Kothatw xuni aamar raaize bor furtee paale, of at my
cost. They declared I have already turned into the dreaded d-word
:-).
c-k.
At 5:42 AM +0000 2/12/05, priyankoo sarma wrote:
Hi all,
I would like to tell you all that I am really thankful to Umesh for the pain he took to scan and send the text to me. I really appreciate that.
However I would like to inform you all that it is not the whole Bible but only a part of it. Dilip-da, please wait for a few months (currently I am working more in the lab looking at the brain, how it processes tone language etc. refer: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/ekaan/kaanlab/)so that I can come up with the paper where I will try to see the aspects you mentioned. In this paper I will try to look into some of the first works which try to explain the Assamese grammar and linguistics. I would like to see how the American Baptist Missionaries, some of the first people who scientifically described Assamese, in their treatise on the language, have analyzed and described the language. Missionary Nathan Brown (1848, 1893), produced two works on Assamese, which I plan to look at in this paper. On the other hand Kakati (1962) and Medhi (1988) have tried to describe Assamese from a native speaker�s perspective. I think it will be interesting to observe and compare these western and eastern perspectives on the same language.
Jugalda's Info on Assamese language (http://www.assam.org/assam/language/assamese_lang_info.html) states that : "the Missionaries had published a lot of books starting from 1813 (the first Assamese printed book was a translation of the Bible done by Atmaram Sarma of Koliabor in 1813; published by the Serampore (Calcutta) English Missionary Press) onwards." (Jugalda thanks for all the input from you that I have received in the "assamese bible.." issue.
Anjanda and Dilipda, born and brought up in Tinsukia I always refer to yesterday as "kaali" and tomorrow as "kaaile (though I write it as kailoi)". [BTW do people know that in Tinsukia we say "baru ne?" instead of "bhal ne" and when we go to repair a bicycle we say "e saikelkhon baru koraboloi jao"]. Anyway coming back to the question of "acceptability" and "correctness", the school of Linguistics that I belong to says that whatever way a Linguistic community speaks should be held as "correct" (of course within quotes). Hence, we might not have anything like a STANDARD Assamese viz. Eastern, Western, Central etc. (That reminds me while watching a clip of the movie Odazyo, I had to take help of the subtitles to understand a kaziya in Barpetiya!!). I think PROPER or XUDDHA are very relative terms. Anjan-da do I make sense?
Netters, your comments and suggestions are more than welcome especially abt the study of Assamese Grammar and Linguistics part.
Sorry for writing such a tiring and lengthy mail. But I am replying to a lot of mails that I should have replied earlier!!
A big thanks to Umesh again.
Priyankoo
Dex matho eta dharona, thikonar xex xari...
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